Quotes by Stephen King

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

Its a hard life if you dont weaken.

When youre twenty-one, life is a roadmap. Its only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect youve been looking at the map upside down, and not until youre forty are you entirely sure. By the time youre sixty, take it from me, youre fucking lost.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. Thats the first important thing I ever found out I didnt find out from my mother

I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life, he would tell the others. It wasnt what I thought it would be at all. It didnt put an end to me as a person. I think... it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in spite of the pain.

Times the thief of memory

Time heals all wounds.

Time and tide wait for no man.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesnt it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true.

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

Time takes it all in the end...

Time passed: the mind rebuilds its defenses.

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

All right I think weve been down here in the dark long enough. Theres a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and Ill be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. Im happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. Its you Im not entirely sure of.

You ought to sue that son of a whore

What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesnt carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.