3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Nobody likes a clown at midnight.

True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome . . . except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride - if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn yourback, they often return on their own.

It's best to be ruthless with the past

If you can't laugh when things go bad—laugh and put on a little carnival—then you're either dead or wishing you were.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end . . .

You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start you will.

If you don’t control your temper. Your temper will control you.