Stephen King Quotes

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“We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.”

“If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.”

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”

“Words have weight.”

“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”

“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”

“The past is obdurate.”

“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”

“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”

“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.”

“The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

“Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

“Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.”

“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”

“Weird love's better than no love at all.”

“He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.”

“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”

“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”

“The turtle couldn't help us.”

“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”

“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”

“People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live.”

“She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”

“I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.”

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

“What if I fall?', Tim cried.

Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”

“Time heals all wounds.”

“Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story”

“He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.”

“Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.”

“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”

“Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.”

“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”

“You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.”

“The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie”

“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”

“Nora Roberts is cool.”

“In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.”

“When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”

“In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives….”

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

“I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.”

“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

“where the world ends is where you must begin”

“Politics always change. Stories never do.”

“It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.”