Stephen King Quotes (302 Quotes)

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

May be sheÆll 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.

The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Go now, there are other worlds than these

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.

As his mouth flooded with that horrible sweet purple taste, he could actually see those grapes dull, dusty, obese and nasty, crawling up a dirty stucco wall in a thick, syrupy sunlight that was silent except for the stupid buzz of many flies

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.

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

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

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

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

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.

Looking back on it, Sloat wasn't sure how he had tolerated Phil Sawyer for as long as he had. His partner had never played to win, not seriously; he had been encumbered by sentimental notions of loyalty and honor, corrupted by the stuff you told kids to get them halfway civilized before you finally tore the blindfold off their eyes.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god Why me' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

I don't do this type of appearance very often. But this was something different.

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

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

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And a good thing never really dies.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

One of the problems here both for France and for Germany, is that they are both quite dependant on exports as a source of growth.

No good friends, no bad friends only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart

The CD, on which Arroyo covers 12 rock tunes including Pearl Jam's Black and Stone Temple Pilots' Plush with guest guitarist Red Sox G.M. Theo Epstein and guest vocalist ... respect for the audience's ears.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.

...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Whenever you meet a man like that, my best advice to you would be to grin big and cover up your balls with both hands.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.

Capital has mobility in Europe. German companies are able to tell workers that they can either accept reduced pay, or see the company close factories and reopen new ones in Poland or India.

The U.S. economy is continuing to weaken, ... We are bearish over the next few months. The beige book continues to show weakness in the U.S.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.