Stephen King Quotes
1) “It’s strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
― The Green Mile
2) “Explanations are such cheap poetry.”
― 11/22/63
3) “There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.”
― Misery
4) “God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change, the TENACITY to change what I may.”
― Salem’s Lot
5) “Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters.”
― The Shining
6) “Down here, I believe there are more universes in every fistful of sand, because infinity is a two-way street.”
― The Outsider
7) “It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
8) “Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― The Shining
9) “We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
― The Shining
10) “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
11) “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”
― The Stand
12) “In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.”
― Carrie
13) “Everything’s a lot tougher when it’s for real. That’s when you choke. When it’s for real.”
― It
14) “And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”
― Pet Sematary
15) “It’s a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it’s a lot. Sometimes, it’s everything you have.”
― Storm of the Century
16) “Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear.”
― The Stand
17) “Men and women who can’t get over their past… That’s what ghosts are.”
― Needful Things
18) “There’s nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”
― The Wind Through the Keyhole
19) “Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old starts up on Monday.”
― Duma Key
20) “We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― It
21) “Some things were better lost than found.”
― The Dead Zone
22) “You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
― Night Shift
23) “Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people’s heads is none of their smucking business.”
― Lisey’s Story
24) “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. It’s just how the world is.”
― Full Dark, No Stars
25) “The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.”
― Bag of Bones
26) “Sooner or later everything you thought you’d left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”
― Insomnia
27) “It’s always wise to check your maybes.”
― Misery
Stephen King Quotes
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