Stephen King Quotes

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“There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.”

“Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.”

“Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.”

“Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.”

“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.”

“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”

“There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”

“Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.”

“… it was more like bleeding than crying.”

“But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”

“(opening lines) The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.”

“It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.”

“For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.”

“Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.”

“Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond”

“The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.”

“He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.”

“Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”

“Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.”

“There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.”

“How to Draw a Picture (XII)

Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.”

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

“Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.”

“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”

“It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”

“The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own… always comes home to you.”

“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”

“My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”

“Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.”

“Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.”

“The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker”

“This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.”

“They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years.”

“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.”

“Hearts don't really break. If only they could.”

“Why do you keep looking back there?" the guy in charge had asked.
"From time to time I need an antidote," Eddie said.
"From what?"
"Your face.”

“I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.”

“Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.”

“Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.”

“In this universe there might grow roses which sing.”

“And you, CONSTANT READER. Thank God you’re still there after all these years. If you’re having fun, I am, too.”

“Black as night and as beautiful as forever.”

“The truth is in the details.”

“You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify”

“no knowledge obtained without risk”

“Money talks, bullshit walks.”

“There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.”

“As far as I’m concerned, high school sucked when I went, and probably sucks now. I tend to regard people who remember it as the best four years of their lives with caution and a degree of pity.”

“Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.”