Stephen King Quotes

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“It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.”

“If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?”

“As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?”

“I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.”

“May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.”

“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.”

“You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.”

“For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying… but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.”

“You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.”

“There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.”

“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”

“Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”

“It's best to be ruthless with the past.”

“Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?

She had shaken her head slowly.

Men and women who can't get over their past… That's what ghosts are.”

“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

“Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”

“I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…”

“Be true, be brave, stand
All the rest is darkness.”

“Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.”

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”

“Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.”

“When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.”

“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”

“Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.”

“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”

“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”

“Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like
diamonds, was forever.”

“But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”

“I'll see you.'
He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.”

“I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what waswith me. What I was lacking.”

“I write for love, but love doesn’t pay the bills.”

“When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.”

“There will be water if God wills it.”

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

“Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.”

“I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.”

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”

“Kill if you will, but command me nothing!”

“By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.”

“Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?”

“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought”

“The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.”

“The crazy people of the world… shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.”

“Ka works and the world moves on.”

“If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.”