Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Death is when the monsters get you.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

453. “Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.”

— Stephen King

454. “If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.”

— Stephen King

455. “Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.”

— Stephen King

456. “The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.”

— Stephen King

457. “Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.”

— Stephen King

458. “On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”

— Stephen King

459. “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

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

— Stephen King

461. “In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.”

— Stephen King

462. “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

463. “Beating heroin is child’s play compared to beating your childhood.”

— Stephen King

464. “Dreams age faster than dreamers.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

466. “You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”

— Stephen King

467. “Come on and take your medicine!”

— Stephen King

468. “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

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

— Stephen King

470. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

476. “A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one you taught. The third and fourth were the ones you worked. The last was the one that outlived you.”

— Stephen King

477. “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

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

— Stephen King

479. “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

480. “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

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

— Stephen King

482. “But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa...”

— Stephen King

483. “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

484. “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

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

— Stephen King

486. “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

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

— Stephen King

488. “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

489. “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

490. “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

491. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

494. “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

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

— Stephen King

496. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

499. “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

500. “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