Psychology Quotes by Stephen King

“Hearts were made to be broken and minds were made to be changed...”

— Stephen King

“the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.”

— Stephen King

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

— Stephen King

“Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.”

— Stephen King

“None of this was real, after all. It was just a refuge in her mind.”

— Stephen King

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

— Stephen King

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

— Stephen King

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

— Stephen King

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

— Stephen King

“Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is to use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate…

— Stephen King

“Human nature has no bottom. It is as deep and mysterious as the mind of God.”

— Stephen King

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

— Stephen King

“Some memories battened onto a person's mind like evil leeches, and certain words could bring them instantly back to squirming, feverish life.”

— Stephen King

“They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of…

— Stephen King

“I guess all religions are weird,’ Eddie said now. But powerful, his mind added, almost magical …”

— Stephen King

“Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.”

— Stephen King

“This is the girl they keep calling a monster. I want you to keep that firmly in mind. The girl who could…

— Stephen King

“To Nick's mind, a corpse was just a thing, no different than a chair or typewriter or a rug. A corpse was…

— Stephen King

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain,…

— Stephen King

“Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with you translating what you see…

— Stephen King

“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in…

— Stephen King

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of…

— Stephen King

“I’d read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world’s strangest trip, and as I climbed…

— Stephen King

“I decided to start with Cincinnati, only because Cincinnati was the first city to come into my mind. It could as easily…

— Stephen King

He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten…

— Stephen King

“He has promised himself that he’ll try not to stuff his Dark Tower fantasies with unpronounceable words in some made-up (not to…

— Stephen King

“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it…

— Stephen King

“Here is something I learned in 1922: there are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing,…

— Stephen King

“You, my dear ... have been wondering why she stuck with him. Although you haven't said as much, it's been on your…

— Stephen King

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people…

— Stephen King

“He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn’t the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled…

— Stephen King

Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things…

— Stephen King

“There are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing, the one that coalesces all your nightmares…

— Stephen King

“Bad or good, movies nearly always have a strange diminishing effect on works of fantasy (of course there are exceptions; The Wizard…

— Stephen King

“It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary,…

— Stephen King

“Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects? I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that…

— Stephen King

“And the purple parted before it, snapping back like skin after a slash, and what it let out wasn't blood but light:…

— Stephen King

“A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

— Stephen King

“Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not…

— Stephen King

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.

— Stephen King