Stephen King Quotes

There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

~ Stephen King

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

~ Stephen King

I can see your dirtypillows.

~ Stephen King

Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I’llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum.

~ Stephen King

I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest.In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

~ Stephen King

You've got to go to Boston, and you've got to go there NOW!!

~ Stephen King

...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketball player. When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank (27-8).

~ Stephen King

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

~ Stephen King

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

~ Stephen King

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

~ Stephen King

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

~ Stephen King

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

~ Stephen King

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

~ Stephen King

God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one of you stick the world's longest finger up my ass. If a prostate check is an exam, that was a motherfucking safari. I was scared to look down. I thought I'd see that guy's finger nail sticking out of my cock.

~ Stephen King

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

~ Stephen King

Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

~ Stephen King

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

~ Stephen King

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

~ Stephen King

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

~ Stephen King

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

~ Stephen King

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

~ Stephen King

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.

~ Stephen King

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

~ Stephen King

The trap had a ghastly perfection

~ Stephen King

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

~ Stephen King

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

~ Stephen King

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

~ Stephen King

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

~ Stephen King

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

~ Stephen King

...we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions on front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night...and what your dreams are like.

~ Stephen King

No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They’re the real ghosts.

~ Stephen King

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

~ Stephen King

The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time's great tower, everything was still happening.

~ Stephen King

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

~ Stephen King

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

~ Stephen King

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

~ Stephen King

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

~ Stephen King

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

~ Stephen King

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

~ Stephen King

The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick Cheney, that apologist for water boarding and for too long chief preacher in the Holy Church of Whatever it Takes, got a brand-new heart while I was writing this - how about that? He lives on; other people have died.

~ Stephen King