Top 98 Dark Tower Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Dark Tower

#1. The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.

Stephen King

#2. I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

Stephen King

#3. He went into a dark tower of truth for you. Do you have the courage to give him your own name?

Patricia A. McKillip

#4. In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different?

Stephen King

#5. It's the grapefruit. By which I mean its the pink one.
-Steven Deschain
Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower #4)

Stephen King

#6. The dark tower. Childe Roland to the dark tower came.

Harper Lee

#7. It starts here. From its field of roses, the Dark Tower cries out in its beast's voice. Time is a face on the water.

Stephen King

#8. Hot chocolate in Central Park! What was the Dark Tower compared to that?

Stephen King

#9. Time and ka and trains. I'm thinking about them and many other things.
(Lady of Shadows: Dark Tower, The Drawing of the Three)

Stephen King

#10. The folks who end up living the lives they expected are more often than not the ones who end up takin sleepin pills or stickin the barrel of a gun in their mouths qnd pullin the trigger.

Stephen King

#11. What heart I have is yours.

Stephen King

#12. Dad-a-dhuck, dad-a-churtle, don't worry, girl, you've got the turtle!

Stephen King

#13. If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.

Stephen King

#14. I fell in love with you, he said. That's why I said it. It happened even before you kissed me, I think.

Stephen King

#15. Oy?" he asked. "Will you say goodbye?"
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.

Stephen King

#16. 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.

Stephen King

#17. We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

Stephen King

#18. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Everything in the Universe denies 'nothing'. To suggest an ending is the one absurdity -The Man in Black from Stephen King's The Gunslinger

Stephen King

#19. In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Stephen King

#20. I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.

Barbara Hambly

#21. Save your hate for those who deserve it more.

Stephen King

#22. In this universe there might grow roses which sing.

Stephen King

#23. He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.

Stephen King

#24. How infinite was love, twining in and out of hope and memory like a braid with three strong strands, so much the Bright Tower of every human's life and soul.

Stephen King

#25. A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

Stephen King

#26. He wanted her, suddenly and completely, with a desperate depth of feeling that felt like sickness. Everything he was and everything he had come for, it seemed, was secondary to her.

Stephen King

#27. They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

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#28. If you love me, then love me.

Stephen King

#29. See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, come along the beam today.

Stephen King

#30. A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water.

Stephen King

#31. Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

Stephen King

#32. Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill.

Stephen King

#33. This situation is not quite beyond saving, but should you carry on much further - should you give voice to such thoughts - it will be.

Stephen King

#34. The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter.

Stephen King

#35. I don't like people. They fuck me up.

Stephen King

#36. He'd sent his cock on its exploring way up more damp and cozy cracks than Jonas had ever seen in his life, and Jonas was twice his age.

Stephen King

#37. If ka will say so, let it be so.

Stephen King

#38. Ka works and the world moves on.

Stephen King

#39. Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Stephen King

#40. I've walked the yellow brick road with Dorothy. Sneaked through the mines of Moria with the fellowship, conquered the known world with Alexander the great, climbed atop the tower with the last gunslinger and revelled as Harry Potter defeated the Dark Lord, all through this chest...

Jon Degnan

#41. Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Stephen King

#42. All of Mid-World had become one vast haunted mansion in these strange latter days; all of Mid-World had become The Drawers; all of Mid-World had become a waste land, haunting and haunted.

Stephen King

#43. See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam.

Stephen King

#44. I shall find the dark grow luminous, the void fruitful when I understand I have nothing, that the ringers in the tower have appointed for the hymen of the soul a passing bell.

W.B.Yeats

#45. The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

Stephen King

#46. But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Sophocles

#47. You can rank me to the dogs and back, but I'll never lose the hard-on I use to fuck your mother.

Stephen King

#48. Control the things you can control .

Samantha Stosur

#49. So fell Lord Perth," he said, "and the countryside did shake with that thunder.

Stephen King

#50. May you live long, but not in good health.

Stephen King

#51. Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

Stephen King

#52. I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid my dead friends will come to me, and that seeing them will kill me.

Stephen King

#53. And he thought that, had he been wearing his guns, he might well have drawn one and put a bullet in Susan Delgado's cold and whoring little heart.

Stephen King

#54. If he came upon us burning in the street, I don't think he'd piss on us to put us out.

Stephen King

#55. All things serve the beam

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#56. The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

John Jakes

#57. Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both.

Stephen King

#58. The mad King, the bad King, the sad King. Ring-a-ding-ding, all hail the King!

Stephen King

#59. They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Stephen King

#60. The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

Stephen King

#61. Time belongs to the Tower.

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#62. The trap had a ghastly perfection

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#63. Nerves, he thought, were for people who hadn't entirely made up their minds.

Stephen King

#64. Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.

Stephen King

#65. The 'lady' looks as if she'd be happy to fuck a rope, could she make it stand up between her thighs.

Stephen King

#66. What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Stephen King

#67. Time is a thief of memory

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#68. Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

Stephen King

#69. As for the end of the universe ... I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

Stephen King

#70. What if I fall?', Tim cried.
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Stephen King

#71. Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

Stephen King

#72. The terror ran endlessly on in his mind, making him feel like a rat trapped on an exercise wheel. And when he tried to look ahead to some better, brighter time, he could see only darkness.

Stephen King

#73. I kill with my heart, motherfucker

Stephen King

#74. Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!

Horace Binney Wallace

#75. The man in black fled across the dessert and the gunslinger followed.

Stephen King

#76. 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.

Stephen King

#77. The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

#79. Are you a gunslinger, Roland? If you are, you better get ready.

Stephen King

#80. I loved you, Jake.

Stephen King

#81. It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.

Stephen King

#82. The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

Stephen King

#83. Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

Stephen King

#84. Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world

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#85. Once again there was the desert, and that only.

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#86. There will be water if God wills it.

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#87. Shake the hand that shook the world.

Stephen King

#88. May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

Stephen King

#89. Liars see their own kind everywhere.

Stephen King

#90. Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.

Stephen King

#91. Roland's heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly go on beating in the face of this.

Stephen King