Quotes by Stephen King

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

Maybe he sells fear because hes got nothing else to sell.

Love didnt grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didnt grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

You laugh because whats fearful and unknown is also whats funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknowns eternal power.

Your hair is winter fire,January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

Some birds are not meant to be caged, thats all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

If youve ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, youll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.

Maybe, he thought, there aren’t any such things as good friends or bad friends—maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they’re always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that’s what has to be.

(...) if thats what has to be. no good friends. No bad riends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

(...) if thats waht has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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

Of course were friends ... we are both civilized men, arent we? Weve shared bed and board and bottle. Well always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual consent, and Ill take good and benevolent care of you. All I ask in return is your soul. Small item. We can even ignore the fact that youve handed it over, the way we ignore the dog collar.

People are only rational on the surface.

Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?

Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.