Stephen King Quotes

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..

~ Stephen King

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

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

~ Stephen King

Get busy living or get busy dying.

~ Stephen King

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

~ Stephen King

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

~ Stephen King

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

~ Stephen King

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

~ Stephen King

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

~ Stephen King

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

~ Stephen King

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

~ Stephen King

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.

~ Stephen King

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.

~ Stephen King

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

~ Stephen King

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

~ Stephen King

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

~ Stephen King

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

~ Stephen King

Am I weird?Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

~ Stephen King

To write is human, to edit is divine.

~ Stephen King

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

~ Stephen King

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

~ Stephen King

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

~ Stephen King

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

~ Stephen King

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

~ Stephen King

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.

~ Stephen King

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

~ Stephen King

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

~ Stephen King

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

~ Stephen King

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

~ Stephen King

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

~ Stephen King

Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster

~ Stephen King

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

~ Stephen King

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

~ Stephen King

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality, new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

~ Stephen King

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

~ Stephen King

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

~ Stephen King

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

~ Stephen King

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

~ Stephen King

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

~ Stephen King

Words have weight.

~ Stephen King