Stephen King Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Sorry, Coffee

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

• Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

  Stephen King

  Emotion, Strongest, Simplest

• But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, Sorrow, I Am Sorry

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

• I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

  Stephen King

  Trying, Proud, Emotion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Stephen King

  Heart, Mind, Hurtful

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

• Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Real, Mind

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

• Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

  Stephen King

  Emotion, Blind

  Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.16, Anchor

• I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "Stephen King and Director Frank Darabont Talk The Mist". The Mist press conference, movieweb.com. November 13, 2007.

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