Top 69 Quotes About The Dark Tower: Famous Quotes & Sayings About The Dark Tower

#1. 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

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

Stephen King

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

Harper Lee

#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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

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

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#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

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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

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

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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.

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

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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

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

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

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

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#25. Control the things you can control .

Samantha Stosur

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

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

Sophocles

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

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#29. 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

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

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#31. 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.

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

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#33. 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

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

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#35. Ka works and the world moves on.

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#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.

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

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#38. All things serve the beam

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#39. 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.

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

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

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#42. 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

#43. 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.

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#44. 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?

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

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

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

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#48. The trap had a ghastly perfection

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#49. Time belongs to the Tower.

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

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

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

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#53. 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

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

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#55. 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.

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

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

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#58. Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

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#59. Some things don't rest easy, even when they're dead. Their bones cry out from the ground.

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

Patricia A. McKillip

#61. 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.

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#62. 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.

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

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#64. 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

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