Stephen Quotes

I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?

Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.

Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-ha

Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages.

No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.

He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.

Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

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.

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

Your hair is winter fire, January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.― Stephen King, The Shining

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.

Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

The trap had a ghastly perfection

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.

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

The purpose of quantum linguistics is to survey the spirit of linguistics and finding solutions to the common barrier problems faced by means of deliberate use of language.

You must realize that money is not good or evil

If you are faced with a lost opportunity, think of the shifting reality and be ready to catch it when it comes your way. This is the way reality functions.

The universal mind acts as an advisor or guide. When you abide by its advice then you will get another opportunity to alter your destiny.

If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.

I have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot.

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them.

To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success.

We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe.