King Quotes
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection of quotes from the American writer Stephen King (born 1947).
King is the most famous scarer of people , which is reflected in the themes of his quotes.
Quotes are summarized by topic: life ethics, writing, women and men, life, adults and children, madness, people, books, friends, love, the past, fear and horror, God, about yourself, human manifestations, hope, houses, murder, time, pity, Harry Potter, age, dreams, fools, choice, heart, death, tears, loneliness.
About life ethics
If you feel bad alone, then others are unlikely to feel good with you.
If everything is a bummer, give up and go to the library.
When your house collapses, you need to build a new one, not glue the rubble together.
Instead of whining about his problems, he continued to live calmly and tried to make his life as pleasant and interesting as possible.
If today you are not able to love anyone, at least try not to offend anyone.
When someone believes in you, you can do anything, you can do anything... and when you start to believe in someone, no one can stop you, no one ever...
It is not given to us to know which days and events are destined to change our lives. Maybe it's for the better.
Be careful when you pray for something because you might get it.
If in doubt, say you don't remember.
The staircase always supported us, and it seemed to us that it would never let us down. It should be noted that such a philosophy constantly plunges many people and even entire nations into trouble.
It is not a piece of paper that makes a person. And it is not prison that destroys him.
Talent itself is cheaper than table salt. There is only one thing that distinguishes a successful person from a talented person - a lot of hard work.
If a person deceives me once, let him be ashamed; if he deceives me a second time, let me be ashamed.
How do you deal with an unsolvable equation? You erase it from the board.
You can't hide your sins forever...
Banish bad thoughts and try to smile. Turn on a happy song on the radio and go out into life with all the courage you can muster and all the faith you can muster. Be real, be brave, be resilient.
If you don't control your anger, your anger will control you.
About writing
Writing is not life, but I think sometimes it can be a path to life.
The main rule of a successful author: write a lot and read a lot.
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a huge difference. They don't have to make speeches. Simple faith is usually enough.
It would be hard to find a more paranoid writer than a writer who, deep down, believes that he is writing nonsense.
We are writers, so we never ask each other where we get our ideas. We know we don't know.
There is no place where there are a bunch of untold stories lying around. Finding an idea is like looking into a clear sky. Your job is not to make stuff up on it, but to see if something interesting starts to appear on it.
The story should captivate the writer too.
Description begins in the writer's imagination and ends in the reader's.
There is something of masturbation in writing: fingers tormenting a typewriter rather than one's own flesh, but both processes depend largely on the ingenuity of the mind, the quickness of the hand, and a sincere devotion to the art of the non-trivial.
The most important things are the hardest to describe. These are things you are ashamed of because words diminish their meaning—words compress things that seem limitless when they are in your head. Make a solemn promise to yourself never to write “precipitation” when you can say “rain,” and never to say “John stopped to take a shit” when you mean John stopped to take a shit.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
About women and men
In general, a man with a good woman is the happiest of God’s creatures, and without her he is the most unhappy. And only one thing saves them: they do not know what they are deprived of.
A woman's appearance is honey that lures men into a hive full of stinging bees.
It's nice when a woman calls you her man, even if only for a short time.
I like women who laugh on their own and don't need to be poked in the face of a joke.
Women can't keep secrets, but none of them will spill what's in her heart.
The wife who, when solving any problem, says: Dear, as you say, so it will be. Women, remember, such a wife does not have to fear that her last breath will come out through her cut throat.
Unfortunately, all girls someday stop running to dances, frolicking on lawns and kissing boys in bushes. And they become more respectable. Yesterday's Barbie doll turns into a respectable mother of the family. There’s no escape, I thought sadly, this fate will befall Sandra too.
Women buy things at sales for the same reason that makes men climb mountains: because they exist.
Sometimes a woman must be a witch to survive.
By the way, quotes about women and quotes about men
About life
The only way to live is to live. Telling yourself, “I can do this,” even though you know you can’t.
We live to fight every new day.
Life is not given to us in order to chart a course around pain points.
This world is just a hospice with fresh air.
Those things that you really need cannot be bought with money.
Life is not easy if you don't know how to relax.
Life tries not to show its bestial grin in order to grab a person at the right moment.
The planet rotates, you know. You can spin with it, or you can cling to something and protest, but then you will be knocked off your feet.
The world is collapsing before our eyes, and here we are talking only about how to have sex.
By the way, quotes about life
About adults and children
If being a child means learning to live, then being an adult means learning to die.
You can be happy at 8 and at 28, but if someone tells you that they were happy at 16, then they are either a liar or an idiot.
Usually, youth easily makes promises and then regrets it.
How crushed today's youth have become! Some are still trying to start a revolution by blowing up toilets in government buildings, but no one is throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon anymore.
Between youth and adulthood lie years of turmoil: those who experience them are tossed from side to side, tossed around like a weather vane.
Overcoming heroin is just toys compared to overcoming childhood complexes.
And this ship is called Old Age. No one is in any particular hurry to sail on it, but the cabins are always full.
About madness
Madness is something like suicide of consciousness.
It is not easy to determine whether a person is insane.
If you lock a psychiatrist in a room for a year with a person who considers himself Napoleon, then who will come out - two normal people or two Napoleons?
Even a very prosperous person always has madness at hand.
Madness has to start somewhere and lead somewhere. Just like a road. Or a bullet flying out of a barrel.
Just because you're alone doesn't mean you're crazy.
About people
When you find out what a person wants, you get to know the person.
People don't get better - only smarter. They do not stop tearing off the wings of flies, but only come up with much more convincing excuses for themselves.
We so often deceive ourselves that we could do this for a living...
You cannot change people, and meddling in their personal affairs - even with the best intentions - means making enemies and losing friends.
I believe that there is someone else living inside everyone. Tricky Man. Why? Because we are no different from a nesting doll. In me there is a Cunning Man, and in him there is a Hopeful Man.
We could change the world, but we traded it for “shop on the couch.”
By the way, quotes about people
About books
Books are a unique traveling magic.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and very often a bad book can teach you more than a good one.
The book should be like unexplored lands. Start it without a map. Explore it and make your own map.
This is the curse of reading people. We can be seduced by a good story at the most inopportune moment.
Movies won't beat books. All these guys like Kingsley Amis are constantly saying: the book is dead, society is sliding into a quagmire, culture has been destroyed, there are idiots all around, imbeciles, television, pop music, decay, degeneration and all that. And then suddenly the damn Harry Potter appears - a 734-page fucking crap that sells five million copies in twelve hours. I won't say anything about myself.
By the way, quotes about books
About friends
No good friends. There are no bad friends. There are only people with whom you want to be, with whom you need to be, who have settled in your heart.
I think true friendship is always worth gratitude - too often the world is like a harsh desert, and it seems like a miracle that flowers still grow in it.
Friendships based on laughter are always strong.
Only enemies tell the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in a web of debt.
Friends don't spy: true friendship also means the ability not to intrude on a friend's inner life.
By the way, quotes about friendship
About love
Love does not grow in the place where there was only fear.
Let romantics argue about whether love exists. Practical people use it for their own purposes...
I’ll tell you what about love - it is very voracious, it consumes everything: friends, family... I’m simply amazed at how much it devours... but if you feed it correctly, everything will be wonderful...
There is an opinion that loving eyes are blind, but this is an axiom of fools. Sometimes they see too much.
By the way, quotes about love
About the past
The past is dead, it can be forgotten.
The past should be treated ruthlessly and calmly. The blows that kill us don't matter. Only those after which we survived and live matter.
The past is like a closet: don't go too deep. There could always be a monster hiding there, ready to bite you.
Anything that can make you laugh thirty years later is not a waste of time. In my opinion, this is something very close to immortality.
In a house, especially an old house, the past is closer.
About fear and horror
Fear has its own unique aroma.
If fear cannot be described, then it cannot be overcome.
There are probably no limits to the horror that a person can experience.
We create horror stories to help us cope with reality.
Monsters and ghosts really exist. They live inside us. And sometimes they win.
About God
God is a terrible conversationalist. There can be no doubt about this.
In my opinion, one of the Lord God’s favorite pastimes is to force those who say “never” to act.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
If God rewards us for good deeds, then perhaps Satan rewards us for bad deeds.
There may be fairies and elves, but remember: God helps those who help themselves.
About Me
I'm the literary equivalent of a Big Mac.
I want to evoke an emotional and even “animal” reaction in readers. I am not one of those who seek to make the reader think. Of course, this cannot be taken literally, because if the plot is good and the characters are recognizable, then emotions will definitely be replaced by thoughts.
I am a professional writer, which means that all the most interesting things happen to me in my dreams.
I had so many different ideas and they seemed to be waiting for permission to come out. It all resembled a huge water balloon above my head. Then I just picked up the phone and poked it - then all the ideas rushed straight to me at once.
About human manifestations
People think that they can’t do a lot of things, and then suddenly discover that they very much can when they find themselves in a hopeless situation.
We are cursed and doomed to always think that we could have done better, even when we achieve everything we wanted.
The tongue often brings a person much more trouble than his genitals.
Curiosity does not lead to good things, but still it is not a vice.
About hope
Hope is a dangerous thing, hope can drive a person crazy...
Remember that hope is a good thing, perhaps even the best thing of all. She doesn't die.
Inside every person there is a small place that can never be reached, it is untouchable, it is only yours. This is hope.
Hope for the best and expect bad things.
About houses
Sometimes home is where your heart lies...
Houses are alive: we know this, we feel it... if we are silent and listen, we can hear their breathing, sometimes in the dead of night we hear their moans, as if they were having a bad dream... a good house lulls and soothes, a bad one fills us with instinctive worry...
Home is our shelter, it is the shell in which we place our bodies... as our bodies age, so do our homes... just as our bodies can get sick, so our houses get sick...
About murder
For those killed, the moment of death is determined not by God, but by man. They are expelled from this world before they have time to atone for their sins, so God forgives them all. It turns out that every murderer opens the gates to Paradise for someone.
That night I learned something that remains unknown to most people: murder is a sin, murder is the condemnation of the soul to eternal torment, but murder is also work.
The survivors feel as if they were the ones who committed the murder.
About the time
Time heals everything, whether you want it to or not. Time heals everything, takes everything away, leaving only darkness in the end. Sometimes in this darkness we meet others, and sometimes we lose them there again.
There is only one place you can escape from the future - the past.
I want to shout to him across the abyss of the past years, but time can only be overcome by the voices of the dead.
By the way, quotes about time
About pity
A person who has experienced a real tragedy does not need anyone's pity. Pity is cheap. All the pity in the world is not worth a penny.
Regret is a Band-Aid for wounded feelings. You can say you're sorry when you spill your coffee or when you miss a golf shot. True regret is as rare as true love.
About Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a story about overcoming fears, finding the strength not to give up and never betraying your friends and those you love.
Will kids and adults still be excited about Harry Potter in 100 years or 200? It seems to me that they will stand the test of time and settle on the shelf where all the best is stored. I think Harry will rank with Alice and Frodo, and this series of books will last not for decades, but for centuries.
About age
Age is just a number.
At twenty-one, life lies before you like a map. And only by the age of twenty-five do you begin to suspect that you are looking at the map upside down, and by forty you are finally convinced of this. And by sixty, believe me, you will know that you are hopelessly lost.
About dreams
People who don't dream, who don't have any imaginary life, they must... they must go crazy. I can't imagine this.
Dreams age much faster than dreamers, and this is an indisputable fact that Pete discovered over time...
By the way, quotes about dreams
About fools
Luck is for fools. That's all they can hope for, poor things.
The only way to have a conversation with a fool is to ignore him.
About the choice
Every choice comes down to one simple question: to be or not to be, to live or to exist.
It always comes down to the fact that there are only two choices: to live animatedly or to die animatedly.
About death
When a person stops changing, stops feeling, stops loving, he dies.
However, they often die difficultly and for a long time, screaming in quiet mournful voices somewhere in the back of the brain.
About tears
Tears that burn and torment the heart are tears of healing.
There are some tears that you absolutely have to cry, at any time of the day or night, to cry so that everything inside burns out.
By the way, quotes about tears
About loneliness
One of the advantages of living alone is that you can talk to yourself boldly and loudly without anyone suspecting that you are crazy...
At any age, loneliness and fear are not a joy, but they are especially terrible in old age.
By the way, quotes about loneliness
About miscellaneous
The most beautiful words in any language are “I forgive.”
Making the world a better place is important, but getting to the toilet on your own is just as important.
The idea is that it's a cold. Sooner or later someone will definitely pick it up.
The end of the world is unlikely. But there is always hope.
Only by losing everything completely do we gain freedom.
Horrible secrets are a heavy burden. And the desire to share them is the most natural desire that can only exist in this world.
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they crashed. But we don't die.
Alcohol is the most vulgar and dangerous drug ever invented.
Grief, like a drunken guest, always returns for a farewell hug.
There is an old saying: don’t peek through the keyhole and there will be no reason for grief. The biggest keyhole in human history is the Internet.
Everyone has something like a dung shovel, with which in moments of stress and trouble you begin to dig into yourself, into your thoughts and feelings. Get rid of it. Burn it. Otherwise, the hole you dig will reach the depths of the subconscious, and then the dead will come out of it at night.
To be honest, I have a hard time imagining how one can write about all sorts of horrors for decades and not go crazy , but apparently this is a rare case of a kind of mental health.
Quotes about King
- S. Spielberg: I don’t know how it happened that King and I are not blood relatives. I can’t believe that King is not at least partly Jewish, I can’t believe that we still haven’t made a single film together. I really think that Stephen and I have a spiritual connection: we like the same things, which we try to reflect in films and in stories.
- J. Rowling: Stephen and I have often jokingly discussed the possibility of working together on the Harry Potter novels, but I never seriously thought that such an opportunity would arise to do a real collaboration. Even though this is not a book yet and not about Harry Potter, believe me that it will be a very exciting story that will not leave you indifferent.
- D. Bykov: You see, he had a lot of taste failures, and not all of his things are strong, but he works a lot because his opponents are serious. His opponent is a world causeless chthonic evil. And in his life he punched this evil in the face a lot and hard. If there weren't books like Misery, The Dead Zone with the amazing and immortal Greg Stilson, books like Revival, I'm absolutely convinced the world would be a worse place.
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Carrie Bradshaw's best quotes about men and relationships
“In my fantasies, I often encountered the man of my dreams and his wife, but in these fantasies I was driving a truck!” “We talk for four hours, but it seems like fifteen minutes have passed. We'll part for two days, but it seems like a year has passed. I realized that Einstein’s theory of relativity requires serious revision, taking into account one important effect - the effect of falling in love.”
“Maybe we were right when we reasoned less and kissed more?”
“There is a turning point in every woman’s life when she realizes that it’s him...”
“It’s very simple to confess your love; it’s much more difficult to prove it every day!”
“The prince did not come. Then Snow White spat out the apple, woke up, went to work, got insurance and made a test tube baby.”
“When a man commits a desperate act, he is usually considered romantic; when a woman does it, she is often considered crazy.”
“Men who are ideal in all respects are the ultimate dream, but for some reason we always leave them for hot young guys on motorcycles without a cent in their pocket.”
“Have you noticed that putting a tie on a man is much more erotic than taking it off?”
“Do we really need distance to get closer?”
“After what number does the number of men become indecent?!”
“When you satisfy a man's specific fantasy, there's always a risk that your relationship will go south and you'll feel like the idiot who did it on the golf course.”
“Is the ideal man a reality or an instrument of torture?”
“We were happy until we decided to live happily ever after.”
“Love is the only label that never goes out of style.”
“You can only give birth to the ideal man yourself.”
“I have grown from the men of my past, but have not yet grown to the men of my future.”
"He's no prince on a white horse, but his BMW has a heater."
“And suddenly it dawned on me: two people decided to live their lives together, and I couldn’t get the man to sign the card with me.”
“There are always moments in relationships when romance gives way to harsh reality.”
“If two people inspire each other so much while lying in different beds, then in the same bed they will definitely be able to agree.”
“Why is it that every time I’m about to be happy, you show up and ruin everything?!”
“It turned out that it was almost impossible to avoid a threesome, because even if you were alone in bed, there was always someone there before you.”
“I envy women who can say: “Darling, everything was wonderful, you gave me so much, be happy with someone else,” but for some reason all I can say is: “Nothing worked out, go to hell.”
“Did I love? Or am I just used to the pain? The exquisite pain of waiting for something unattainable..."
“When a female gorilla is in love, she spends her days combing out fleas from her chosen one, but with humans it’s the opposite: catching fleas can ruin even the strongest relationships.”
“But, ironically, in a big city it’s very easy to meet a man who broke your heart. It’s even easier to meet him when you look like crap.”
“Why, in a city where 10 million men live, do you constantly bump into someone you don’t want to see?!”
“I enjoyed plunging into the world of a proud single woman and disposable men.”
“Scientists have found that after sex, a woman’s body produces hormones responsible for attachment. This same hormone raises a bunch of different questions in a woman’s head, and this is after just one time. He likes me? When will he call? And a classic of the genre: Where will all this lead?”
“In a society of hot-headed young people, the idea of monogamy somehow disappeared by itself.”
