Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”

— Stephen King

252. “Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations; they’re antithetical to the poetry of fear.”

— Stephen King

253. “Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

— Stephen King

254. “Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.”

— Stephen King

255. “The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.”

— Stephen King

256. “When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.”

— Stephen King

257. “The world has moved on,′ we say... we’ve always said. But it’s moving on faster now. Something has happened to time.”

— Stephen King

258. “His cock swung from side to side like the pendulum of a grandfather clock on speed.”

— Stephen King

259. “If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say ‘I can do this’ even when you know you can’t.”

— Stephen King

260. “The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.”

— Stephen King

261. “Pain is the biggest power of love.”

— Stephen King

262. “Writing’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”

— Stephen King

263. “He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”

— Stephen King

264. “There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.”

— Stephen King

265. “May we have happy days, satisfied minds, and little or no low back pain.”

— Stephen King

266. “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.”

— Stephen King

267. “A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. – Roland Deschain.”

— Stephen King

268. “As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.”

— Stephen King

269. “A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.”

— Stephen King

270. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”

— Stephen King

271. “I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.”

— Stephen King

272. “So it always has been; so shall it be, life sucks, then you die.”

— Stephen King

273. “I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”

— Stephen King

274. “In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.”

— Stephen King

275. “I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

— Stephen King

276. “Adults are the real monsters.”

— Stephen King

277. “Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”

— Stephen King

278. “Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”

— Stephen King

279. “Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.”

— Stephen King

280. “I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world.”

— Stephen King

281. “Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”

— Stephen King

282. “Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they’re set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.”

— Stephen King

283. “The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.”

— Stephen King

284. “Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?”

— Stephen King

285. “Trust, a sense of humor, and don’t let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That’s all I know about good marriage. I’ve been married a long time – it seems to be working.”

— Stephen King

286. “Gordie: Do you think I’m weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody’s weird.”

— Stephen King

287. “Without story books is like a person with no soul.”

— Stephen King

288. “How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?”

— Stephen King

289. “Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.”

— Stephen King

290. “A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

— Stephen King

291. “Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.”

— Stephen King

292. “Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.”

— Stephen King

293. “Hearts are tough, Most times they don’t break. Most times they are only bend.”

— Stephen King

294. “Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.”

— Stephen King

295. “I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”

— Stephen King

296. “The worst advice? ‘Don’t listen to the critics.’ I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they’re telling you something is broken that you can fix.”

— Stephen King

297. “There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.”

— Stephen King

298. “Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.”

— Stephen King

299. “If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.”

— Stephen King

300. “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