Stephen King Quotes page 11

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

Stephen King book The Suicide Prince

Source: End of Watch

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

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

“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.”

Source: 11/22/63

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

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

“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.”

Variant: There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Source: Doctor Sleep

Stephen King The Running Man

Source: The Running Man

“… it was more like bleeding than crying.”

Stephen King book Cujo

Source: Cujo

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

Stephen King book Joyland

Source: Joyland

“(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.”

Source: It (1986)

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

Source: It

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

Source: 11/22/63

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

“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.”

Source: Wolves of the Calla

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

Source: Doctor Sleep

Stephen King book The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

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

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Jud, to Louis
Source: Pet Sematary (1983)

“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.”

Source: It

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

“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.”

Source: Doctor Sleep

Stephen King Dreamcatcher

Source: Dreamcatcher

“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?”

Source: Doctor Sleep

Stephen King book From a Buick 8

Source: From a Buick 8

“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.”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Source: Pet Sematary

“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.”

Source: Doctor Sleep

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

Source: It

“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.”

Source: 11/22/63

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

“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.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

“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.”

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

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

Stephen King book Mr. Mercedes

Source: Mr. Mercedes

“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.”

Source: 22/11/63

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

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

Stephen King book The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

Source: Song of Susannah

“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.”

Source: It

“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.”

Source: It

Stephen King book Finders Keepers

Source: Finders Keepers

“Black as night and as beautiful as forever.”

Stephen King book Everything's Eventual

Source: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“The truth is in the details.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

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

Stephen King book From a Buick 8

Source: From a Buick 8

“no knowledge obtained without risk”