Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

253. “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

— Stephen King

254. “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

255. “There’s a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.”

— Stephen King

256. “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

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

— Stephen King

258. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

261. “Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I’ll never tire. We’ll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

269. “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

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

— Stephen King

271. “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

272. “Adults are the real monsters.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

278. “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

279. “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

280. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

283. “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

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

— Stephen King

285. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

288. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

291. “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

292. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

295. “Clear communication between selves – the surface self and the deep self – is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.”

— Stephen King

296. “Time is a face on the water.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

298. “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

299. “The past is obdurate. It doesn’t want to change.”

— Stephen King

300. “Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”

— Stephen King