3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Some things were better lost than found.

Never mind,' Fran said. Her father was amazingly broad-minded, but an AC/DC fan he was not.

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was.""Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly."It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

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

Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness that feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Quand t'as vingt et un an, la vie est nette comme une carte routière. C'est seulement quand t’arrive à vingt-cinq que tu commences à soupçonner que tu tenais la carte à l'envers... et à quarante que t'en as la certitude. Quand t'atteins les soixante, alors là, crois moi t'es définitivement largué.