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Stephen King Quotes - Page 35

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He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being

He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

Tired, Men, Thinking

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Rivers, Water, Flow

Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

Country, Years, Csi

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.

Running, Book, Fighting

Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

Home, Hunting, Night

"Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

Ka works and the world moves on.

Moving, World

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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.

Thinking, Darkness, Degrees

Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Giving, Praying, Politician

Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

Eye, Too Much, Fool

Stephen King (2014). “A Good Marriage”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

Eye, Looks, Might

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.256, Anchor

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.

Jobs, Together, Goes On

"The Shining". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

Names, Two, Hundred

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

Pain, Blood, Trying

Stephen King (2002). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, Scribner

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

People, May, Realist

Stephen King (2015). “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

Men, Risk, Looks

Stephen King (2006). “Cell: A Novel”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

Country, Song, Sweet

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.11, Titan Books

All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue -- when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day -- I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious.

Real, Rainy Day, Thinking

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

Memories, Dark, Voice

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

Darkness, Lasts, Good Times

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.199, Titan Books

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

Father, Men, Example

Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.100, Titan Books

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

Running, Rocks, Tree

Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.47, Anchor

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Drinking, Moral Fiber, People

Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.234, Anchor

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Redemption, Want, Brooks

"The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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.

Stars, Looks, Matter

Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.123, Anchor

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Lying, Bleeding, Towns

Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.112, Anchor

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