Stephen King Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Looks, Like Family

  Stephen King (2016). “Coffey's Hands”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

• When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Pain, Apples

• For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

• The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

  Stephen King

  Pain, World, Size

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

• May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Memories, May

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

• That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Love You, Love Life

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.703, Simon and Schuster

• I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Pain, Rain

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

• When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

  Stephen King

  Life, Hope, Pain

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

• I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Pain, People

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.119, Titan Books

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

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Pain, Tyrants

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Pain, Talking

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

• There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

  Stephen King

  Pain, People, Waiting

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

• Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Tired, Boss

• She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Pain

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.72, Anchor

• But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Blood, Trying

  Stephen King (2002). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, Scribner

• Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Stress, Home

  Stephen King (2016). “Coffey's Hands”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

• Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Pain, World

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.174, Anchor

• There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Tyrants

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Sweet, Pain

• Pain is the biggest power of love.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Power Of Love

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

• I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Debt Free, Two

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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