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“love is what moves the world, I've always thought… it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down… bring them low… and make them crawl…”

Stephen King

“Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It (1986)

“Some things were better lost than found.”

Stephen King book The Dead Zone

Source: The Dead Zone

“If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

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

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

“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.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“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”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

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

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Sometimes quoted as "Nothing good ever dies."
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Source: The Shawshank Redemption

“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

“As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.”

Stephen King book Just After Sunset

Source: Just After Sunset

“I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle”

Stephen King

“There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”

Stephen King book Skeleton Crew

Source: Skeleton Crew

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining

“Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

“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

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

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep