Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but may not said. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me.”

— Stephen King

352. “But see that you get on. That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”

— Stephen King

353. “Politics always change. Stories never do.”

— Stephen King

354. “Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.”

— Stephen King

355. “Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.”

— Stephen King

356. “Everything’s a lot tougher when it’s for real. That’s when you choke. When it’s for real.”

— Stephen King

357. “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

358. “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

359. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

362. “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

363. “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

364. “All Thing Serve the Beam.”

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

367. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

370. “People can be stunningly unobservant.”

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

374. “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

375. “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

376. “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

377. “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

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

— Stephen King

379. “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

380. “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

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

— Stephen King

382. “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

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

— Stephen King

384. “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

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

— Stephen King

386. “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

387. “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

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

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

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

— Stephen King

391. “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

392. “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

393. “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

394. “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

395. “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

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

— Stephen King

397. “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

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

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399. “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

400. “The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.”

— Stephen King