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Quotes by Stephen King

Stephen King

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who cant take care of it is a fool. You dont hate him, but you got to pity him.

A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.

Lend me your wings, bird. Ill spread them and fly on the thermals.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.― Stephen King, The Shining

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasnt so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

But it is. It’s something you need, and that’s a long way from nothing. If you need it, Eddie, we need it. What we don’t need is a man who can’t let go of the useless baggage of his memories.

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

Home is where they want you to stay longer

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

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. McVriess voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

The exhausted mind is obsessions easiest prey.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For loves ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Pain is the biggest power of love. Thats what Wireman says.

You havent finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. Youre afraid of finding you cant finish. Youre afraid to go down to where the stones stand, but not because youre afraid of what may come once you enter the circle. Youre afraid of what may not come. Youre not afraid of the great world, Eddie, but of the small one inside yourself.

Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.