Stephen King Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

  Stephen King

  Friendship, Letting Go, Song

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 08, 2014

• When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Past, Fiction

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.32, Titan Books

• A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

  Stephen King

  Past, Idiot, Persons

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

• Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

  Stephen King

  Attitude, Business, Believe

• Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Past, Men

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

• It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

  Stephen King

  Past, Want, Sometimes

  Stephen King (2002). “From a Buick 8”, Scribner

• The past is obdurate.

  Stephen King

  Past

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.1061, Simon and Schuster

• Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

  Stephen King

  Past, People, Knows

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

• It's best to be ruthless with the past.

  Stephen King

  Past, Ruthless

  Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

• See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Past, Towers

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

• I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Past, Gone

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.485, Simon and Schuster

• The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

  Stephen King

  Past, Want

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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