Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up. Stephen King More Quotes by Stephen King More Quotes From Stephen King In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . Stephen King runningmenyears I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are. Stephen King identitylosingmind In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies. Stephen King politehobbiesobsession The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium. Stephen King ephemeralliteraturefiction For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark. Stephen King gundarkloss The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Stephen King teethwantedworld The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows Stephen King spiritmindheart A life without love is like a tree without fruit. Stephen King famous-loveinspirational-lovelove No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person Stephen King really-smartsmart-personsmart It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then. Stephen King hard-to-let-gothornsletting-go I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart. Stephen King eyeheartfather No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. Stephen King ever-afterdoechildren Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path. Stephen King donejourneymay If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it? Stephen King passionpositivelife Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started. Stephen King waitinglifelong The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer. Stephen King wisedreamchildren Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. Stephen King immortality But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years. Stephen King dreamdoorsschool I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.) Stephen King heartbelievepeople Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't. Stephen King sadheartbreakthinking
