Quotes from Doctor Sleep

Stephen King ·  531 pages

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“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep



“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“No great thing is created suddenly.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep



“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep



“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“The world's just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep



“The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:

REDRUM”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“You didn't get sober to be stupid, Danny. Keep it in mind the next time you start listening to that itty-bitty shitty committee inside your head.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep



“I’m not scared of hell. I lived a decent life, and I don’t think there is such a place, anyway. I’m scared there’s nothing.” He struggled for breath. A pearl of blood was swelling in the corner of his right eye. “There was nothing before, we all know that, so doesn’t it stand to reason that there’s nothing after?” “But there is.” Dan wiped Charlie’s face with the damp cloth. “We never really end, Charlie. I don’t know how that can be, or what it means, I only know that it is.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“We're only as sick as our secrets.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep


“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
― Stephen King, quote from Doctor Sleep



About the author

Stephen King
Born place: in Portland, Maine, The United States
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