Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2023 Update)
Page 10 of 10

451. “Dreams age faster than dreamers.”

— Stephen King

452. “All Thing Serve the Beam.”

— Stephen King

453. “Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn’t it?”

— Stephen King

454. “Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don’t know if I can ’cuz I’m so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”

— Stephen King

455. “There are things of such darkness and horror – just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty – that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”

— Stephen King

456. “I believe you hear a click, not in your head but in your soul, when you find the place where you belong. You can ignore it, but really, why would you?”

— Stephen King

457. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

— Stephen King

458. “So what, ghosts can’t hurt you. That’s what I thought then.”

— Stephen King

459. “It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child’s heart, and then his child’s heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.”

— Stephen King

460. “It’s hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else’s.”

— Stephen King

461. “I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who’s talented and someone that’s not.”

— Stephen King

462. “Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.”

— Stephen King

463. “The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.”

— Stephen King

464. “I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wire man says.”

— Stephen King

465. “The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”

— Stephen King

466. “He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn’t.”

— Stephen King

467. “When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

469. “He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”

— Stephen King

470. “Come on, big guy. Let’s go for a ride. Let’s cruise.”

— Stephen King

471. “Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.”

— Stephen King

472. “As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer – let’s say take a book like “It” or maybe “Christine,” and say these are make-believe fears.”

— Stephen King

473. “I don’t want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.”

— Stephen King

474. “We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.”

— Stephen King

475. “There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.”

— Stephen King

476. “What I’m saying is that I’m trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that’s neveer a good sign.”

— Stephen King

477. “For a woman a man will do many things that he’d turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he’d back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.”

— Stephen King

478. “But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.”

— Stephen King

479. “Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”

— Stephen King

480. “The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.”

— Stephen King

481. “He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.”

— Stephen King

482. “If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”

— Stephen King

483. “Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”

— Stephen King

484. “I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.”

— Stephen King

485. “Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.”

— Stephen King

486. “The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”

— Stephen King

487. “No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person.”

— Stephen King

488. “Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life’s a fiction and the world’s a lie, so put on some Creedence and let’s get high.”

— Stephen King

489. “Come on and take your medicine!”

— Stephen King

490. “If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I’m concerned, it’s fit to see the light of day.”

— Stephen King

491. “If you can’t let go of the past, the mistakes you’ve made will eat you alive.”

— Stephen King

492. “He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate – they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.”

— Stephen King

493. “The hawk does not fear you, boy, and the hawk never will. The hawk is God’s gunslinger.”

— Stephen King

494. “Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There’s no feeling on earth like it.”

— Stephen King

495. “If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.”

— Stephen King

496. “Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”

— Stephen King

497. “Tell him he’s wrong. Tell him that even if he’s right about waiting, he’s right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.”

— Stephen King

498. “I think that, even if we forget each other, we’ll remember in our dreams.”

— Stephen King

499. “Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.”

— Stephen King

500. “Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.”

— Stephen King