Quotes by Stephen King

He did it (listened) as the worlds most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speakers face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing.

For a woman a man will do many things that hed turn his back on in an instant when alone; things hed back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

So what, ghosts cant hurt you. Thats what I thought then.

The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

He knew a great deal of the Bible already, and he knew the Bible believed in all sorts of weird stuff. According to the Bible, God Himself was at least one-third Ghost, and that was just the beginning. You could tell the Bible believed in demons, because Jesus threw a bunch of them out of this guy. Real chuckalicious ones, too. When Jesus asked the guy who had them what his name was, the demons answered and told Him to go join the Foreign Legion. Or something like that.

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.

I’m going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!

She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.

The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

One of lifes great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

Well, luck is for fools. Its all they have to hope for, poor devils.

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

Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.

To the champ, everything is serious business. Im hoping that hell live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.

She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant.

Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.