Stephen King Quotes

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“Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks”

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”

“In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.”

“Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.”

“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”

“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”

“Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.”

“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“Dancing is life.”

“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”

“What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.”

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.”

“Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.”

“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”

“Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.”

“Jesus watches from the wall,
But his face is cold as stone,
And if he loves me
As she tells me
Why do I feel so all alone?”

“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”

“Everyone loves something for nothing… even if it costs everything.”

“There’s always someone who knows something.”

“The medical definition ofis misdiagnosis.”

“Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.”

“A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.”

“And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.”

“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”

“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”

“Art should be a place of hope.”

“Mister, we deal in lead.”

“Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”

“Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.”

“Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.”

“The monster nevers dies.”

“I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.”

“The color white is the absence of memory.”

“You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.”

“Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”

“Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.”

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.”

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

“Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.”

“If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.”

“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”

“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”

“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”

“An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.”

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”

“And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night… and what your dreams are like.”

“Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.”