Stephen King Quotes About Survival

Quotes about: Survival

• there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

  Stephen King

  Optimistic, Long, Optimism

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

• Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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