“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Am I weird?"
"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'
Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'
Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.'
Red: 'Forget?'
Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'
Red: 'What're you talking about?'
Andy: 'Hope.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“no one dies happy, you can only die well”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“One does not always need to hear a slam to know that the door has been closed.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“some birds aren`t ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright....”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“What it comes down to, Red, is some people refuse to get their hands dirty at all. That's called sainthood, and the pigeons land on your shoulders and crap all over your shirt.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Speech destroys the functions of love, I think—that’s a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm. Love isn’t what these asshole poets like McKuen want you to think it is. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It’s the other way around, that’s the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them. Take it from me. I’ve made my life from the words, and I know that is so.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read the scripture the way those holy rollers on TV read the Book of Revelations. They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck. They read the scripture, but you can see a different scripture in their faces. Most cons are a low sort, no good to themselves or anyone else, and their worst luck was that their mothers carried them to term.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“I don’t have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
“In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Different Seasons
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“Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? You're twenty-eight and a half years old, Abbzug. ”
― Edward Abbey, quote from The Monkey Wrench Gang
“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.”
― Vikas Swarup, quote from Q & A
“A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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