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Stephen King

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Stephen King, a master of horror and suspense, has captivated readers with his vivid imagination and compelling storytelling. His quotes reflect his insights on creativity, perseverance, and the human experience, often with a touch of dark humor. Together, they offer inspiration, wisdom, and a glimpse into the mind of one of the most prolific and influential writers of our time.
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Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..
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Topic: Inspirational
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
From The Stand
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Topic: Funny
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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Topic: Hope
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
From 11/22/63
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Topic: Life
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
From The Long Walk
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Topic: Life
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
From Lisey's Story
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Topic: Death
Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.
From Danse Macabre
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Topic: Death
Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Topic: Inspirational
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
From The Dark Tower
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Topic: Inspirational
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
From The Gunslinger
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Topic: Relationships
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
From Storm of the Century
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Topic: Funny, Religion
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
From Hearts in Atlantis
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Topic: Happiness
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
From You Like It Darker
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Topic: Hope
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
From The Running Man
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Topic: Life
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long
From The Green Mile
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Topic: Death
Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

How would that be? Just how would that be?
From The Long Walk
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Topic: Death
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
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Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. In that one way, at least, radio was better.
From The Green Mile
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Topic: Television
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.
From The Gunslinger
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Topic: Relationships
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
From Under the Dome
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Topic: Funny
I hope Andy is down there.
I hope I can make it across the border.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope.
From Different Seasons
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Topic: Hope
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
From The Drawing of the Three
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Topic: Life
At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers, and it was his laughter she took with her as she went out, fleeing the light and heat in to the silkly, consoling dark, calling to him over and over as she went, calling bird and bear and hare and fish.
From Wizard and Glass
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Topic: Death
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
From The Stand
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Topic: Funny
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
From 11/22/63
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
From The Long Walk
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Topic: Life
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
From Lisey's Story
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.
From Danse Macabre
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Topic: Death
Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Topic: Inspirational
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
From The Dark Tower
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
From The Gunslinger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
From Storm of the Century
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny, Religion
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
From Hearts in Atlantis
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
From You Like It Darker
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
From The Running Man
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long
From The Green Mile
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Topic: Death
Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

How would that be? Just how would that be?
From The Long Walk
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. In that one way, at least, radio was better.
From The Green Mile
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Television
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.
From The Gunslinger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
From Under the Dome
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Topic: Funny
I hope Andy is down there.
I hope I can make it across the border.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope.
From Different Seasons
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
From The Drawing of the Three
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers, and it was his laughter she took with her as she went out, fleeing the light and heat in to the silkly, consoling dark, calling to him over and over as she went, calling bird and bear and hare and fish.
From Wizard and Glass
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
From The Stand
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
From 11/22/63
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
From The Long Walk
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
From Lisey's Story
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.
From Danse Macabre
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.
NOT YET RATING ▼
To write is human, to edit is divine.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
From The Dark Tower
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
From The Gunslinger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
From Storm of the Century
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny, Religion
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
From Hearts in Atlantis
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible.
From You Like It Darker
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
From The Running Man
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long
From The Green Mile
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

How would that be? Just how would that be?
From The Long Walk
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the world and toward nothing but its own glassy self. In that one way, at least, radio was better.
From The Green Mile
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Television
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.
From The Gunslinger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
From Under the Dome
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
I hope Andy is down there.
I hope I can make it across the border.
I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
I hope.
From Different Seasons
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
From The Drawing of the Three
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers, and it was his laughter she took with her as she went out, fleeing the light and heat in to the silkly, consoling dark, calling to him over and over as she went, calling bird and bear and hare and fish.
From Wizard and Glass
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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