Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Everything’s a lot tougher when it’s for real. That’s when you choke. When it’s for real.”

— Stephen King

352. “If you’ve ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you’ll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”

— Stephen King

353. “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”

— Stephen King

354. “Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody.”

— Stephen King

355. “Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.”

— Stephen King

356. “And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.”

— Stephen King

357. “All Thing Serve the Beam.”

— Stephen King

358. “Kill if you will, but command me nothing!”

— Stephen King

359. “I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.”

— Stephen King

360. “Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.”

— Stephen King

361. “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

362. “People can be stunningly unobservant.”

— Stephen King

363. “No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”

— Stephen King

364. “Well, I’m like a drug addict, I’m always saying I’m going to stop, and then I don’t, what I’ve said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.”

— Stephen King

365. “When facts speak, the wise man listens.”

— Stephen King

366. “And didn’t they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?”

— Stephen King

367. “God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn’t that funny?”

— Stephen King

368. “I can’t see the future, but it’s grim. The depletion of resources – we’re living in this dine-and-dash economy.”

— Stephen King

369. “Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There’s good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.”

— Stephen King

370. “A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can’t make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.”

— Stephen King

371. “Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?”

— Stephen King

372. “He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.”

— Stephen King

373. “I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.”

— Stephen King

374. “Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

— Stephen King

375. “I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn’t to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that’s always seemed to me like kissing your sister.”

— Stephen King

376. “Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do.”

— Stephen King

377. “A person who doesn’t learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”

— Stephen King

378. “We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.”

— Stephen King

379. “When you’re five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”

— Stephen King

380. “A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.”

— Stephen King

381. “I’m a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don’t read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read.”

— Stephen King

382. “It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.”

— Stephen King

383. “Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.”

— Stephen King

384. “Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.”

— Stephen King

385. “Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.”

— Stephen King

386. “As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.”

— Stephen King

387. “There’s a lot of things people think they can’t do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.”

— Stephen King

388. “I wouldn’t have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.”

— Stephen King

389. “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.”

— Stephen King

390. “For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.”

— Stephen King

391. “It’s best to have your tools with you. If you don’t, you’re apt to find something you didn’t expect and get discouraged.”

— Stephen King

392. “This is how a man looks when he’s deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.”

— Stephen King

393. “I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.”

— Stephen King

394. “God doesn’t bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.”

— Stephen King

395. “Successful rebellions always begin in secret.”

— Stephen King

396. “Sometimes death is natural, a mercy that puts an end to suffering. But all too often it comes as an assassin, full of senseless cruelty and lacking any vestige of compassion.”

— Stephen King

397. “Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.”

— Stephen King

398. “If something is accessible to a lot of people, it’s got to be dumb because most people are dumb.”

— Stephen King

399. “But that’s enough. Fun is fun and done is done. Turn out their lights, beautiful.”

— Stephen King

400. “I believe that there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man.”

— Stephen King