Stephen King Quotes

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

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

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

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.

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

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

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

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

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

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

The most important things are the hardest to say

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

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

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.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

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

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

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

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

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.

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

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

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.