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36 Stephen King Quotes That Are Both Painfully Brilliant And Haunting

It was like drowning only from the inside out. 
Kirsten Corley
August 9, 2016
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: monsters, Stephen King, Demons
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Tagged: New Starts, Beginnings, Fear, Overcoming Fear
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
— Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Freedom, Caged Birds, Stephen King, Stephen King Quotes
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
— Stephen King, Hearts In Atlantis
Tagged: Heartbreak, Loss, Relationships, Death
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
— Stephen King, Everlasting Wisdom
Tagged: enemies, Friends, Honest And Truthful, Honesty
“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: human, monsters, Demons, Stephen King Quotes
“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Tagged: Fear, Life Quotes, Stephen King
“There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
— Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas
Tagged: Hopeful, Life Quotes, Stephen King Quotes
“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.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: Lonely, Self Worth, Changing, Stephen King Quotes
“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
— Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas
Tagged: Hope, Faith, Trust, Relationships, danger
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Tagged: Happily Ever After, Relationships, Stephen King Quotes
“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: Right Choices, Good People, Relationships, Stephen King Quotes
“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”
— Stephen King, Salem's Lot
Tagged: Serenity, Tenacity, Mess Up, God, Stephen King Quotes
“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”
— Stephen King, Under the Dome: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Poet, Junkyard Dog
“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
— Stephen King, The Green Mile
Tagged: Stephen King Quotes, Pain, Family, Scars
“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you”
— Stephen King, Night Shift
Tagged: Judgment, Stephen King Quotes, Life Quotes
“Time's the thief of memory.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Tagged: Time, Memory, Thief
“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.”
— Stephen King, Carrie
Tagged: Life Quotes, Haunting Quotes, Smarter, Stephen King Quotes
“True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
Tagged: First Love, True Love, Addictions, Relationships, Heartbreak
“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep: A Novel
Tagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Acceptance, Stephen King Quotes
“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
— Stephen King, Full Dark No Stars
Tagged: Good People, Stephen King Quotes, bad boys
“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”
— Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Tagged: Depression, Anxiety, Stephen King Quotes
“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.”
— Stephen King, Lisey's Story
Tagged: Death Quotes, Mourning, Death, Relationships, After Life
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption
Tagged: Life Quotes, Stephen King Quotes, Stephen King
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
— Stephen King, The Green Mile
Tagged: Time Keeping, Time's Up, Time, Life, Hourglass, Stephen King Quotes
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
— Stephen King, It: A Novel
Tagged: Lies, lying, Self Worth, Honesty, Stephen King Quotes
“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Tagged: Listening, Speaking, Ears, Stephen King Quote, Stephen King Quotes
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”
— Stephen King, Duma Key: A Novel
Tagged: Talent, Hard Work, Quit, Stephen King Quotes, Self Worth
“If you don't control your tempter your temper will control you.”
— Stephen King, Under the Dome: A Novel
Tagged: Control Temper, Control Emotions, Control, Anger, Stephen King Quotes
“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”
— Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
Tagged: Wants And Needs, Good and Bad, Good Vs Evil, Toxic Relationships