Top 500 Stephen King Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I believe that there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man.”

— Stephen King

402. “When you ask me what I’m afraid of, I’d say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn’t scare me as it scared me when I was a child.”

— Stephen King

403. “They say that loving eyes can never see, but that’s a fool’s axiom. Sometimes, they see too much.”

— Stephen King

404. “I’m having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!”

— Stephen King

405. “Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”

— Stephen King

406. “The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”

— Stephen King

407. “Her breasts swayed like ancient cracked punching bags.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

409. “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”

— Stephen King

410. “You say true, I say thankya.”

— Stephen King

411. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

416. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

421. “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

422. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

425. “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

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

— Stephen King

427. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

431. “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

432. “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

433. “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

434. “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

435. “And then the world exploded.”

— Stephen King

436. “A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

439. “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

440. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

446. “The wise man doesn’t poke a sleeping bear with a stick.”

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

448. “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

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King