Stephen King Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

• Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Fantasy And Reality, Suits

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.391, Anchor

• He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.

  Stephen King

  Loneliness, Reality, Long

• Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Firsts, Myth

• Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Mind, Towers

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

• What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

  Stephen King

  Depression, Reality, Glasses

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

• The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Wall, Reality

  Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

• Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Soul, Brain

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

• Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Bent

  Stephen King (2007). “Dreamcatcher”, p.236, Hachette UK

• I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Thinking, Lakes

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

• Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Reality, Littles

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin