Stephen King Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay. The Dark Half

2. A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again. Bag of Bones

3. But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart. 11/22/63

4. Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.. It

5. Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?

6. Eighty percent of success is just showing up. Mr. Mercedes

7. FEAR stands for fuck everything and run. Doctor Sleep

8. For Short-Timers there is always a choice. We find that frightening . . . but we also find it beautiful. Insomnia

9. He felt gladness roar through his soul. Misery

10. 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. Misery

11. He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. The Dark Tower

12. Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. Bag of Bones

13. I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

14. I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness. Bag of Bones

15. I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. Christine

16. If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone Wizard and Glass

17. It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

18. Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one. Under the Dome

19. Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question. It

20. People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that? Joyland

21. Several times we had been very close to "it," but "it" just never quite happened. She always drew back, and I never pressed her. God help me, I was being gallant. I have wondered often since what would have changed (for good or for ill) had I not been. What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen. Joyland

22. Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

23. Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. Hearts in Atlantis

24. That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery. The Stand

25. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen The Stand

26. The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary Cujo

27. There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went. Doctor Sleep

28. Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment. Bag of Bones

29. When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off. Storm of the Century

30. Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch! Full Dark, No Stars