Top 100 Life Stephen King Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Life Stephen King

#1. Remember, cool is not a way of life; it's a state of being. Like your height. I can't help being 6'3, and I can't help being cool.

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#2. The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

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#3. So it always has been; so shall it be, life sucks, then you die.

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#4. We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

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#5. Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

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#6. In a book, all would have gone according to plan ... but life was so fucking untidy - what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you needed to take a shit, or something? An existence where there weren't even any chapters?

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#7. I think that gratitude for life, whatever the cause, indicates that one has managed to hold on to the core of one's sanity.

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#8. I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

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#9. Life is more than love and pleasure,
I came to dig for treasure.
If you want to play, you gotta pay,
You know it's always been that way
We all came digging for treasure.

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#10. I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something ... set yourself on something ... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

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#11. I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in SPITE of the pain.

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#12. When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

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#13. For the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching ... by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

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#14. Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.

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#15. Stand right there. If your ass loses contact with that wall, you are going to lose contact with life as you have always known it. You understand?
Roland

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#16. He had never in his life felt so undecided about so many things, and he wanted to cry.

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#17. Jack stood in the dining room just outside the batwing doors leading into the Colorado Lounge, his head cocked, listening. He was smiling faintly. Around him, he could hear the Overlook Hotel coming to life. It

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#18. Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good - they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of gray - and shades of gray are also a part of life.

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#19. What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course.

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#20. There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take.

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#21. That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain.

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#22. Goddam life, I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway. That's my goddam attitude, and I stick by it; this ain't a sad world unless you're sane.

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#23. No one pronounced Jerusalems Lot dead
on the morning of October 6;
no one knew it was.
Like the bodies of previous days
it retained every semblace of life

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#24. Thinking, Garraty thought. That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone.

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#25. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

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#26. Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

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#27. Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.

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#28. I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.

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#29. Most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don't give a person leave to just walk away from em ... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price.

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#30. The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship with a self-reliant woman who takes zero shit from me or anyone else has made the continuity of my working life possible.

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#31. Never had he seen a man who looked so lonely, so far from the run of human life with its fellowship and warmth. To see him here, in this place of fiesta, only underlined the truth of him: he was the last. There was no other.

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#32. The greatest terror of Danny's life was DIVORCE, a word that always appeared in his mind as a sign painted in red letters which were covered with hissing, poisonous snakes.

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#33. They talk like people, he thought, who have kept the huddled-up secrets of their guilts and inadequacies to themselves for a long time, only to discover that these things, when verbalized, were only life-sized after all.

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#34. Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly swirled in furious but fragile storm-systems.

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#35. Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

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#36. People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

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#37. Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

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#38. I suppose it doesn't matter much. A lot of things don't matter, but it doesn't keep a man from wondering about them, I've noticed.

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#39. For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room ...

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#40. I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

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#41. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

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#42. I am afraid, but I have been afraid before. All he can take from me is what I would have to give up someday anyhow - my life. I will not let him break me down. I will not let him make me less than I am, if I can possibly help it.

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#43. Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.

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#44. Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

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#45. Life could sometimes be grand.

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#46. As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever.

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#47. I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life ... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.

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#48. What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common ...

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#49. But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn't man or God. It's something ... in the brain.

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#50. Better than cancer or Alzheimer's, that prime horror of anyone who has spent his life making a living by his wits.

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#51. So I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.

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#52. I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

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#53. The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

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#54. Get busy living or get busy dying.

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#55. In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

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#56. I'd like to suggest that turning off that endlessly quacking box is apt to improve the quality of your life as well as the quality of your writing.

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#57. Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.

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#58. She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine.

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#59. You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

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#60. How to Draw a Picture (XII)
Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

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#61. A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures.

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#62. No. I was going to say his work changed my life, but that's not right. I don't think a teenager has much of a life to change. I just turned eighteen last month. I guess what I mean is his work changed my heart.

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#63. He says there's a reason wife and life sound almost the same.

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#64. That life was richer,' a voice deep in his mind whispered. 'This one is truer,' whispered another, even deeper.

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#65. You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

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#66. Stories and novels consist of three parts: narration, which moves the story from point A to point B and finally to point Z; description, which creates a sensory reality for the reader; and dialogue, which brings characters to life through their speech.

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#67. As he was shaking off, it came to Jake Chambers that the Pere would never do this again, or grin at him and point his finger; or cross himself before eating. They had killed him. Taken his life. Stopped his breath and pulse. Save for dreams, the Pere was now gone from the story. Jake began to cry.

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#68. And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

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#69. You take these." A pair of bulky blue mittens dropped into Hallorann's lap. "You'll need em when you go off the road again, I guess. Cold out. You wear em unless you want to spend the rest of your life pickin your nose with a crochetin hook.

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#70. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

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#71. your shadow has been over me for my whole life.

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#72. I'll do whatever you want," Trash said gratefully in the dream. "My life for you! My soul for you!"
"I will set you to burn," the dark man said gravely.

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#73. It's always the end for now, and in real life, the only full stop is on the obituary page.

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#74. A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

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#75. Life was a wheel, and it always came back around.

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#76. He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

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#77. Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started.

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#78. It didn't scare him the way he had thought it would. There was still the unshakable, blind assurances that this organism Ray Garraty could not die. The others could die, they were extras in the movie of his life, but not Ray Garraty, star of that long-running hit film, The Ray Garraty Story.

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#79. Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

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#80. We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

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#81. I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

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#82. A song on the radio can bring back the past with fierce (if mercifully transitory) immediacy: a first kiss, a good time with your buddies, or an unhappy life-passage.

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#83. Leaving for the night, it came to me. What I should have told her. Life goes on - that's what I should have said. That's what you say to people when a loved one dies. But, thinking it over, I was glad I didn't. Because maybe that's what she was afraid of.

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#84. It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

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#85. It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, 'what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

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#86. The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

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#87. Sometimes I think life is a sad, sad business, Doc. I really do.

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#88. The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you create a pleasing sound. A harmonic. But then start adding strings. Ten strings, a hundred strings, a thousand, a million. Because they multiply!

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#89. The fox who end up living the life they expected are more often than not end up taking sleeping pills or taking the barrel of a gun and pulling the trigger.

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#90. We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

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#91. I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.

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

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#93. Her whole life had been a long and easy dream to lull her helplessly into this waking nightmare.

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#94. Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

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