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Stephen King Quotes about Life

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People can be stunningly unobservant.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

Life, People

Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Inspirational, Life, Night

Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2419, Simon and Schuster

No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

Life, Matter, Lasts

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

Life, Stars, Love You

Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63”, p.826, Simon and Schuster

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

Life, Positive, Passion

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Love, Life, Romantic

"TIME" Magazine, October 6, 1986.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Inspirational, Life, Movie

Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

Life, Long, Waiting

Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Life, Giving Up, Men

Stephen King (2016). “Thinner”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

Life, Thinking, Numbers

"Rage". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

Life, Hope, Pain

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Inspirational, Life, Real

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Life, Death, Two

FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 16, 2014

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Life, Beautiful, Truth

Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Life, Ears, Speak

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

Life, Care, Bowling

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

Life, Hate, Love You

STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

Life, Real, Games

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Life, Wheels, Sooner Or Later

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

Life, World, Cash

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Life, Lying, Fiction

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

Life, Two, Long

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

Life, Stars, Lying

Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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