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Stephen King

Writer

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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NOT YET RATED▼
Life is more than just steering a course around pain.
From Desperation
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
From The Long Walk
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
From The Dark Half
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..
From It
Topic: Love
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
"Am I weird?"
"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."
From The Body
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
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The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
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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.
From The Stand
Topic: Relationships
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Topic: Funny
Stephen King
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Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
Topic: Hope
Stephen King
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
From Different Seasons
Topic: Life
Stephen King
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
From Duma Key
Topic: Life
Stephen King
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Sometimes dead is better
From Pet Sematary
Topic: Death
Stephen King
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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
From Danse Macabre
Topic: Death
Stephen King
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The monster nevers dies.
From Cujo
Topic: Death
Stephen King
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Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
From Full Dark, No Stars
Topic: Death
Stephen King
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He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girl’s tears; that she wept over its cruel unpredictability; and that she wept because of the human being’s wonderful, deadly ability to translate symbols into conclusions that were either fine and noble or blackly terrifying. If all those animals had died and been buried, then Church could die
(any time!)
and be buried; and if that could happen to Church, it could happen to her mother, her father, her baby brother. To herself. Death was a vague idea; the Pet Sematary was real. In the texture of those rude markers were truths which even a child’s hands could feel.
From Pet Sematary
Topic: Death
Stephen King
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Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?
Topic: Love
Stephen King
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We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
Topic: Relationships
Stephen King
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Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
Topic: Success
Stephen King
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Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
Topic: Philosophical
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Not all boats which sail 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 man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Religion
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'
Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'
Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.'
Red: 'Forget?'
Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'
Red: 'What're you talking about?'
Andy: 'Hope.
From Different Seasons
Topic: Hope
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Life is more than just steering a course around pain.
From Desperation
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
From The Long Walk
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
From The Dark Half
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..
From It
Topic: Love
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
"Am I weird?"
"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."
From The Body
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Stand
Topic: Relationships
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Topic: Funny
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
Topic: Hope
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Get busy living or get busy dying.
From Different Seasons
Topic: Life
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
From Duma Key
Topic: Life
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Sometimes dead is better
From Pet Sematary
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
From Danse Macabre
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
The monster nevers dies.
From Cujo
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
From Full Dark, No Stars
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girl’s tears; that she wept over its cruel unpredictability; and that she wept because of the human being’s wonderful, deadly ability to translate symbols into conclusions that were either fine and noble or blackly terrifying. If all those animals had died and been buried, then Church could die
(any time!)
and be buried; and if that could happen to Church, it could happen to her mother, her father, her baby brother. To herself. Death was a vague idea; the Pet Sematary was real. In the texture of those rude markers were truths which even a child’s hands could feel.
From Pet Sematary
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?
Topic: Love
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
Topic: Relationships
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
Topic: Success
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
Topic: Philosophical
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Not all boats which sail 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 man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Religion
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'
Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'
Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.'
Red: 'Forget?'
Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'
Red: 'What're you talking about?'
Andy: 'Hope.
From Different Seasons
Topic: Hope
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Life is more than just steering a course around pain.
From Desperation
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
From The Long Walk
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
From The Dark Half
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..
From It
Topic: Love
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
"Am I weird?"
"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."
From The Body
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
From Doctor Sleep
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Stand
Topic: Relationships
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
From On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Topic: Funny
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
From The Dark Tower
Topic: Hope
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Get busy living or get busy dying.
From Different Seasons
Topic: Life
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
From Duma Key
Topic: Life
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Sometimes dead is better
From Pet Sematary
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
From Danse Macabre
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
The monster nevers dies.
From Cujo
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
From Full Dark, No Stars
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girl’s tears; that she wept over its cruel unpredictability; and that she wept because of the human being’s wonderful, deadly ability to translate symbols into conclusions that were either fine and noble or blackly terrifying. If all those animals had died and been buried, then Church could die
(any time!)
and be buried; and if that could happen to Church, it could happen to her mother, her father, her baby brother. To herself. Death was a vague idea; the Pet Sematary was real. In the texture of those rude markers were truths which even a child’s hands could feel.
From Pet Sematary
Topic: Death
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?
Topic: Love
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
From The Dead Zone
Topic: Inspirational
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on.
Topic: Relationships
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
From Mr. Mercedes
Topic: Success
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.
From The Gunslinger
Topic: Philosophical
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Not all boats which sail 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 man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
From It
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Religion
Stephen King
NOT YET RATED▼
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'
Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'
Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.'
Red: 'Forget?'
Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'
Red: 'What're you talking about?'
Andy: 'Hope.
From Different Seasons
Topic: Hope
Stephen King
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