Quotes by Stephen King

“Last reason for reading horror: its a rehearsal for death. Its a way to get ready. People say theres nothing sure but death and taxes. But thats not really true. Theres really only death, you know....”

“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

“The monster nevers dies.”

“Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?”

“He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly...”

“Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.”

“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”

“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.”

“never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.”

“I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - ...”

“Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.”

“Theres always a choice. Thats Gods way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. Theres no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.”

“You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy'...”

“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!”

“A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.”

“Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after ...”

“Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. ...”

“It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.”

“If God rewards us on earth for good deedsthe Old Testament suggests its so, and the Puritans certainly believed itthen maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.”

“Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of i...”