Quotes from Stephen King

In spite of the problems he was having, he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't, and plenty of them aren't in prison, either.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other.

It was possible to graduate from passive to active, to take the thing that had once driven you nearly to madness as a neutral prize of no more than occasional academic interest.

Birth is nothing but death begun

He waits. The time passes. It always does.

When I say truth, I mean beauty.

There's always someone at fault, which is not the same as blame.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion. That my mind had been as badly hurt as my body was a thing I only came to realize once I was alone and all other voices dropped away.

Gravity is the anchor that pulls us down into our graves. There would be no grave for this man, and no more gravity, either. He had been given a special dispensation.

The body was far smaller than the heart it had held

At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with a rudimentary sense of humor—the kind that finds feeding firecrackers wrapped in bread to seagulls unutterably funny.

Lila harboured an unspoken belief that motherhood was the best possible rehearsal for a prospective police officer.. Mothers were naturals for law enforcement, because toddlers, like criminals, were often belligerent and destructive. If you could get through those early years without losing your cool or blowing your top, you might be able to deal with grown-up crime. The key was to not react, to stay adult..

Shake the hand that shook the world.

I want to go someplace where nobody knows me and I don't have any black marks against me before I start.

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my mind.

Leigh left college to be married, and then it was goodbye Drew and hello Taos. I went to her wedding with hardly a qualm. Nice fellow. Drove a Honda Civic. No problems there.

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.

A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way.

She was thinking about how quietly you could grow to depend on a person, almost like a junkie with a habit.

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Sleep is the overlooked hero and the poor man's physician. Shakespeare

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a gasp.

Joy—damn, but that's a cheerful little word.