Quotes by Stephen King

“All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.”

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

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..

Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?

love is what moves the world, Ive always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl...

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

If its ka itll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

I wouldnt have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

In the year 2025, the best men dont run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

Theyre animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?