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Stephen King Quotes

Total quotes: 91
“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”
— Stephen King, Salem's Lot
Tagged: Serenity, Tenacity, Mess Up, God, Stephen King Quotes
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
— Stephen King, Awaken
“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
— Stephen King, The Green Mile
Tagged: Stephen King Quotes, Pain, Family, Scars
“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”
— Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
Tagged: Wants And Needs, Good and Bad, Good Vs Evil, Toxic Relationships
“The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Tagged: first lines of books
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
— Stephen King, Read And Soar
Tagged: Reading, Books, Entertainment
“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Tagged: Gunslinger
“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Tagged: Gunslinger
“and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Tagged: Gunslinger
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: Lonely, Self Worth, Changing, Stephen King Quotes
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Tagged: Happily Ever After, Relationships, Stephen King Quotes
“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
— Stephen King, Carrie
Tagged: Life Quotes, Haunting Quotes, Smarter, Stephen King Quotes
“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep: A Novel
Tagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Acceptance, Stephen King Quotes
“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
— Stephen King, Full Dark No Stars
Tagged: Good People, Stephen King Quotes, bad boys
“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”
— Stephen King, Lisey's Story
Tagged: Death Quotes, Mourning, Death, Relationships, After Life
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: creepy, Writing, Reading, writer, Writers, Authors, Readers, Books
“A short story is a different thing all together – a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
— Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
Tagged: creepy, Stories, Story, short stories, short story, writer, Writing
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: creepy, Writing, writer, Editing, edit
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
“Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
— Stephen King, 11/22/63: A Novel
Tagged: stupidity, chances, Regrets
“I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”
— Stephen King, 11/22/63: A Novel
Tagged: Magic, Love, Hearts
“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.”
— Stephen King, Pet Sematary
Tagged: Death, Memories, Life
“You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”
— Stephen King, Lisey's Story: A Novel
Tagged: Life Quotes, Death Quotes, Mourning, Regret, goodbye
“Anger is the most useless emotion, destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.”
— Stephen King, Song of Susannah
Tagged: Anger, emotions, Heart and Love, Hurtful
“I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.”
— Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
Tagged: creepy, asylum, asylums, Mental Illness
“Practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Tagged: Writing, Zen
“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”
— Stephen King, More Good Words
Tagged: Family, Mourning, Death
“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity”
— Stephen King, Pet Sematary
Tagged: Horror, humanity, creepy
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
— Stephen King, Everlasting Wisdom
Tagged: enemies, Friends, Honest And Truthful, Honesty
“There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
— Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas
Tagged: Hopeful, Life Quotes, Stephen King Quotes
“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you”
— Stephen King, Night Shift
Tagged: Judgment, Stephen King Quotes, Life Quotes
“This is how we go on: one day a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time.”
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Tagged: creepy, Pain, Life, live, Living
“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Tagged: Lust, Love
“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: Death, Love, Fear
“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Tagged: Gunslinger
“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.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Tagged: Gunslinger
“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.”
— Stephen King, It
Tagged: first lines of books
“Kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.”
— Stephen King, How to "Kill Your Darlings" and Survive the Process
Tagged: Life, Writing
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: creepy, monsters, Ghosts, Supernatural, Evil, spooky
“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: creepy, spooky, Writing, Painting, Art, Inspirational, Inspiring
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