Stephen King Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

  Stephen King

  Hate, Real, Winning

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 26, 2013

• It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Night

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2419, Simon and Schuster

• Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

  Stephen King

  Brave, Darkness, Be Brave

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.1150, Simon and Schuster

• Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

  Stephen King

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.1174, Simon and Schuster

• As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

  Stephen King

  Fire, Ice, Darkness

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

  Stephen King

  Sad, Time, Loneliness

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

• Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

  Stephen King

  Life, Stars, Lying

  Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

• I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives: the parent who punches instead of kissing, the auto accident that takes a loved one, the cancer we one day discover living in our own bodies. If such terrible occurrences were acts of darkness, they might actually be easier to cope with. But instead of being dark, they have their own terrible brilliance. . . and none shine so bright as the acts of cruelty we sometimes perpetrate in our own families.

  Stephen King

  Real, Cancer, Believe

  Stephen King (2002). “The Shining”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

  Stephen King

  Doors, Darkness, Perception

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

• The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

  Stephen King

  Darkness, Lasts, Good Times

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.199, Titan Books

• She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

  Stephen King

  Light, Long, Darkness

• Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Darkness, Degrees

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

• It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Darkness, Pouring

• I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on the other side because for most of us, I know for me, life is so rich, so colorful and sensual and full of good things, things to read, things to eat, things to watch, places to go, new experiences, that I don't want to think that you just go to darkness.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, New Experiences

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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