Stephen King Quotes about Reality

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I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

Stephen King

Reality, Thinking, Lakes

Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

Stephen King

Dream, Wall, Reality

Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Stephen King

Reality, Firsts, Myth

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.

Stephen King

Loneliness, Reality, Long

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

Stephen King

Reality, Fantasy And Reality, Suits

Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.391, Anchor

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

Stephen King

Reality, Soul, Brain

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

Stephen King

Depression, Reality, Glasses

Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, 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.

Stephen King

Reality, Mind, Towers

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