Roland The Gunslinger Quotes

#1. 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

#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. Don't feel sorry for yourself. Make do.

Stephen King

#6. I'm being careful with here, Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions.

Karen Joy Fowler

#7. 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

#8. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.

Stephen King

#9. Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned

Simon Bolivar

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

Stephen King

#11. Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.

Ricky Hatton

#12. On the other side of Mid-World, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, had drawn this divided woman to him and had created a third, who was far better, far stronger, than either of the previous two.

Stephen King

#13. Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Charles James

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

Stephen King

#15. Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. Jamie DeCurry had once proclaimed that Roland could shoot blindfolded, because he had eyes in his fingers.

Stephen King

#17. But it is not the length of life that counts - it is the depth and strength of life.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#18. The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

Billy Joel

#19. I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.

Casey Affleck

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

Stephen King

#21. That's like piss icing on the shit cake.

R.S. Grey

#22. A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Stephen King

#23. More people write poetry than read it.

George Carlin

#24. The trap had a ghastly perfection

Stephen King

#25. There's no dark like it. It's soft to the touch and heavy in the hands. You can open your mouth and let it sink into you 'till it makes a close ball in your belly. You can juggle with it, dodge it, swim in it. You can open it like a door.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

#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