Stephen King Quotes

Those aren't doors, and they're not opening. Those are crypts, Richie. They're cracking open and the...

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodical...

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

He knew a great deal of the Bible already, and he knew the Bible believed in all sorts of weird stuf...

The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exha...

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s...

It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was...

(...) if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be wi...

stop now before i kill youa word to the wise from your friendPENNYWISE

We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of ...

And there he would either be mercifully annihilated or live forever, insane and yet conscious inside...

...she did remember on time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom si...

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his...

Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said h...

...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, somethi...

They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years–if it ever did end–began, so far as I...

Energy has a way of dissipating, you know; what can be done when you're eleven can often never be do...

He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone h...

If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real s...

If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be...

Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which d...

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was...

But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting peo...

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes bac...

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive yo...

I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to ta...

Maybe, he thought, there aren’t any such things as good friends or bad friends—maybe there are just ...

When you’retwenty-one, life is a roadmap.It’s only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin...

She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, an...

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyw...

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

Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing I’d developed a sma...

Several times we had been very close to "it," but "it" just never quite happened. She always drew ba...

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

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

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ev...

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is ...

Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away m...

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and th...

And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning a...

Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot...

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was th...

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

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most...

Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them ...

A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in...

It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a ...

At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes o...

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were ...

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktago...

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard do...

He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the gr...

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way t...

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists...

A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The secon...

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our l...

The best part, though, was hearing my mother's voice. It was like having her again, coming out from ...

Tim stared at the steel rod in the gloved hand. "Is that a magic wand?"The Covenant Man appeared to ...

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too,” I said. “But he went on. I expect you to do the same.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!’ the gunslinger roared. ‘You have forgotten the faces of t...

Hi,’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten...

To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to bla...

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping mad...

He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must ...

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

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

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it'...

You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you...

Jake guessed Henry had been pulling shit like this on him so long that Eddie only noticed it when He...

This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—

And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.

What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes f...

But it is. It’s something you need, and that’s a long way from nothing. If you need it, Eddie, we ne...

The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't lik...

The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cl...

He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accep...

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but wit...

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

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

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. ...

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.