Quotes

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.
-Stephen King

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.
-Stephen King

He told himself that everything was fine - he only had to look at the sleeping dog on the floor if he doubted - but in the middle of the night it was hard to be an optimist. When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.
-Stephen King

He smiled. The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. "That's how it is every day", he said, "all over the world."
-Stephen King

Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
-Stephen King

Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.
-Stephen King

I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids...Because as soon as you have a kid, you know for sure that you're going to die. When you have a kid, you see your own gravestone.
-Stephen King

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
-Stephen King

Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?
-Stephen King

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long. (closing line)
-Stephen King

He looked like he could have snapped the chains that held him as easily as you might snap the ribbons on a Christmas present, but when you looked in his face, you knew he wasn't going to do anything like that.
-Stephen King

Love is like dying.
-Stephen King

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
-Stephen King

Has it ever occurred to you...that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?
-Stephen King

Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.
-Stephen King

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
-Stephen King

Either get busy living or get busy dying
-Stephen King

Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.
-Stephen King

Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.
-Stephen King

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.
-Stephen King

A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.
-Stephen King

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
-Stephen King

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
-Stephen King

Born in Lust, Turn to Dust. Born in Sin, Come on In
-Stephen King

America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time.
-Stephen King

"He kill them with they love", John said. "They love for each other. You see how it was?" I nodded, incapable of speech.
-Stephen King

He Thrusts His Fists Against The Post And Still Insists He Sees The Ghosts
-Stephen King

Maybe I did it because kids need to know that sometimes dead is better.
-Stephen King

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
-Stephen King

He felt as if Stillson might have taken the game of the Laughing Tiger a step further: inside the beast-skin, a man, yes. But inside the man-skin, a beast.
-Stephen King