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Life Quotes by Stephen King

257 Life quotes by Stephen King

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A writer sees life as a mix of short moments, long pain, and occasional bursts of beauty. The quotes say that art and cooking can lift us, and that we’re meant to help each other. They also note that life can feel like a roadmap turned upside down.

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“Life is short and pain is long...”

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“Life is a capricious bussines.”

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Life turns on a dime.

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“Life could sometimes be grand.”

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This is not a bad life.

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Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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“Dancing is life.”

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“There’s little in life that’s so disheartening as constant cold.”

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“Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.”

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“Your bullshit quotient is higher than my husband”

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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

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“Life turns on a dime, and when it does, it turns fast.”

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“He says there's a reason wife and life sound almost the same.”

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“Actually, I think living's the worst habit.”

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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine…

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“If God gives you something you can do, why in God’s name wouldn’t you do it? My”

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“I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real.…

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Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round…

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Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

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“You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.”

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“My whole pleasant life has been nothing but the eye of some storm I don’t understand.”

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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

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“It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight…

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I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought…

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I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't…

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“I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at…

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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the…

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Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all…

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I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a…

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One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one…

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It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the…

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“If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No.…

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“God makes it all come right in the end, that's what Johnnie told Dock Barker just before we parted company. I was…

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“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who…

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When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of…

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“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…

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“The pain in my hip was just short of apocalyptic. And the first five hundred words were uniquely terrifying—it was as if…

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Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there…

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“Their lives had another forty seconds to run.”

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”