Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “Her breasts swayed like ancient cracked punching bags.”

— Stephen King

402. “You say true, I say thankya.”

— Stephen King

403. “Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.”

— Stephen King

404. “When you’re six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.”

— Stephen King

405. “Seven, Richie thought. That’s the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.”

— Stephen King

406. “It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”

— Stephen King

407. “I don’t take notes; I don’t outline, I don’t do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can’t sell it as caviar.”

— Stephen King

408. “He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”

— Stephen King

409. “It’s strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

— Stephen King

410. “I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.”

— Stephen King

411. “Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”

— Stephen King

412. “The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”

— Stephen King

413. “I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.”

— Stephen King

414. “Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.”

— Stephen King

415. “If you can’t laugh when things go bad – laugh and put on a little carnival – then you’re either dead or wishing you were.”

— Stephen King

416. “Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.”

— Stephen King

417. “The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.”

— Stephen King

418. “And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.”

— Stephen King

419. “The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, “Whatever you think is best, dear.” Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.”

— Stephen King

420. “And suddenly it didn’t seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.”

— Stephen King

421. “The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.”

— Stephen King

422. “It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.”

— Stephen King

423. “Black as night and as beautiful as forever.”

— Stephen King

424. “God always punishes us for what we can’t imagine.”

— Stephen King

425. “And then the world exploded.”

— Stephen King

426. “Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don’t shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.”

— Stephen King

427. “People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.”

— Stephen King

428. “The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.”

— Stephen King

429. “You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you’d turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it’s own imperatives.”

— Stephen King

430. “Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.”

— Stephen King

431. “But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.”

— Stephen King

432. “The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.”

— Stephen King

433. “It was one of those perfect summer days which, in a world where everything was on track and on the beam, you would never forget.”

— Stephen King

434. “His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.”

— Stephen King

435. “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

436. “Ka works and the world moves on.”

— Stephen King

437. “In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.”

— Stephen King

438. “Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark.”

— Stephen King

439. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

442. “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

443. “Death is when the monsters get you.”

— Stephen King

444. “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

445. “Remember that ‘plumber in space’ is not such a bad setup for a story.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

447. “Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

449. “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

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

— Stephen King