Quotes from Stephen King

People say that where there's life, there's hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse. There is hope, therefore I live.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

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.

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

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.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´ The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend was a whore.´ ´Well,´ Roland said, ´that's a start.´

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say Fear, itself. Then you have a small imagination. Roland and Eddie

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.