Quotes by Stephen King

Why is a crooked letter and cant be made straight.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

Words have weight.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

Why does she have to be such a...such a...Go on, I said. The truth is never cussing, Son.Such a bitch!

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because theyre never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; its the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown.

nevers the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

I dont believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I dont want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

You said God is cruel the way a person whos lived his whole life on Tahiti might say Snow is cold. You knew, but you didnt understand. He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boys cold cheeks. Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

It dont matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Christ.No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel’s sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think: Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches, God of the Mystery.

She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear.