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Stephen King Quotes - Page 40

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What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

Matter, Planes

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

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

Real, Magic, Mind

Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.' Red: 'What're you talking about?' Andy: 'Hope.'

Mean, Men, Talking

"Fictional characters: Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get? John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that? Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?

Jobs, Miracle, Want

Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.

Beautiful, Mother, Country

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

Gun, Men, Watson

It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.

Glasses, Axes, World

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Doors, Darkness, Perception

Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

Emotional, Feelings, Panic

Stephen King (2016). “Gerald's Game”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Reality, Mind, Towers

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.

Moving, Eye, Son

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

Ears, Corn, Helping

Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

Hate, Jealous, Men

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.757, Anchor

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

Falling In Love, Book, Responsibility

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

Sex, Children, Men

Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.608, Hachette UK

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.

Ideas, Might, States

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

Children, People, Prophecy

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Thinking, Praying

Stephen King (1990). “The Stand”, Signet Book

He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs apart, the woman had hers together. Pretty much the story of the human race in sign language.

Men, Race, Black

Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.

Dog, Hurt, Eye

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

Make-up covers a multitude of sins.

Sin, Multitudes

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

Goes On, Way, Taught

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

Hot Flashes, Hot, Hysterical

Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

Careful, Cant

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

Halloween, Monsters, Humans

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