Dark Tower The Gunslinger Quotes

#1. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never really was any problem.

C.S. Lewis

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

Stephen King

#3. 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

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

Stephen King

#5. I spend a lot of time on TV doing the same sort of thing. I found a niche in TV where people are willing to steadily employ me to do this one thing, which I put spins on and change.

Tyler Labine

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a 'dualistic' view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#9. 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

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

Stephen King

#11. In Silence there is eloquence.

Rumi

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

Stephen King

#13. 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

#14. Hey, we missed the whole thing.

Neil Armstrong

#15. All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.

Hermann Hesse

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

Stephen King

#17. The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.

David Vann

#18. If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

Robert Littell

#19. The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

#21. 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

#22. Rich men in hell are a dime a dozen.

Will Bevis

#23. Time is a thief of memory

Stephen King

#24. The trap had a ghastly perfection

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

#27. I don't believe in the concept of a soul mate. Because we are all unique, but we're also simply too similar.

Augusten Burroughs

#28. 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

#29. I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.

Stephen King

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

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

Stephen King