Quotes by Stephen King

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.” 

― Stephen King

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.” 

― Night Shift

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.” 

― The Stand

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.” 

― The Stand

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance…logic can be happily tossed out the window.” 

― The Stand

“Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear” 

― The Stand

“If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.” 

― The Stand

“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.” 

― The Stand

“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

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.” 

― Bag of Bones

“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.” 

― Stephen King

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.” 

― It

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.” 

― The Dark Tower

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” 

― Shawshank Redemption 

“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.” 

― Different Seasons