Stephen Quotes
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited.
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption
...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.
There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.
It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working.
