Stephen King Quotes

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“Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.”

“Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.”

“All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.”

“So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.”

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today.”

“But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.”

“Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to.”

“I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.”

“They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.”

“It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.”

“Never give a good politician time to pray.”

“Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.”

“Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”

“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.”

“You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.”

“A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.”

“Good days and long nights to ya, sai.”

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

“He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.”

“The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.”

“Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.”

“Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon.”

“Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.”

“Life sucks, then you die”

“… when we say, 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.' ”.”

“I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one”

“Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh!
Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.”

“Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.”

“What's been tried once had been tried once before… and before… and before…”

“It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.”

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.”

“As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.”

“Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.”

“Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.”

“Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

“In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.”

“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent toartistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.”

“… I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness…”

“Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.”

“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.”

“Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.”

“Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.”

“Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.”

“You say true, I say thankya.”

“Time-travelers lie a lot.”

“Use your judgement.""
""But I have so little.”

“The devil can quote scripture.”

“Croquet is bastardized roque.”

“Some stains don't come out.”