Quotes by Stephen King

Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because Hes a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world Hes apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy.

It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath.

What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

Nothing lasts forever, Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through the dirt on Richies cheeks.Except maybe for love, Ben said.And desire, Beverly said.

When you’retwenty-one, life is a roadmap.It’s only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect you’ve beenlooking at the map upsidedown, and not until you’reforty are you entirely sure.

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.Instead, I left her where she was. Thats not the world we live in, shed said, and how right she was,

Were not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because theres no place like Dome.

... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.

I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, theres only one question and one answer. What happened? the reader asks. This is what happened, the writer responds. This...and this...and this, too. Keep it simple. Its the only sure way home.

You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing Ave Maria.

You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you dont believe it you were never really fat or really poor.

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

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.

She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.