Dark Tower Quotes - Page 2

• and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

  Stephen King

  Hate, Thinking, World

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

  Stephen King

  Life, Lying, Fiction

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

  Stephen King

  Heart, Years, Broken

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

  Stephen King

  Journey, Done, May

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• Long days and pleasant nights

  Stephen King

  Night, Long, Gunslinger

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Fighting, Ends

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

  Stephen King

  Mind, Dare, Gunslinger

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

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• 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

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• All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Spiders, Stones

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

  Stephen King

  Necks, Dark Tower Series

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

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• I knew if we could pull in the Stephen King fans, we'd have a ball game. The point at which I finally became confident of the audience interest was when I showed up at one of the Marvel midnight openings to launch the very first issue of Dark Tower.

  Peter David

  Kings, Dark, Games

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• 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

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• 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

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• The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

  Stephen King

  Size, Mystery, Gunslinger

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

  Stephen King

  Men, Two, Enemy

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• In the earlier novels, Steve King tells us that John Farson, and perhaps even the Crimson King himself, are but other names and faces that belong to Walter O'Dim. However, in The Dark Tower, he tells us very clearly that Walter, John Farson, and the Crimson King are actually separate individuals.

  Robin Furth

  Kings, Dark, Names

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• Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Evil, Waiting

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

  Stephen King

  Judging, Coward, Dark Tower Series

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2955, Simon and Schuster

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• The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!

  Stephen King

  Dream, Dark, Blue

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• This is going to sound strange, but I really feel I know Roland very well. In Wizard and Glass, I got to know the young Roland, and then as I traveled with him from Eluria (found in the story "The Little Sisters of Eluria") through Tull and the Mohaine Desert (The Gunslinger), and then all the way to the Dark Tower.

  Robin Furth

  Dark, Glasses, Little Sister

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• I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road Home and Treachery), is that while Gunslinger Bornwas a translation of an existing novel, the next two arcs are really the stories that I've been weaving since I first started working with Steve King on the Dark Tower back in 2000/2001.

  Robin Furth

  Kings, Home, Dark

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• In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.

  Robin Furth

  Dark, Order, Towers

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• I've learned a heck of a lot this way [making Dark Tower comics]. I've also learned a lot from the editors at Marvel, who are always an equal part in the creative team.

  Robin Furth

  Team, Dark, Editors

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• Because I was new to comics, I didn't know what to expect! However, I really like working collaboratively [on Dark Tower series], since I feel that - with so many different imaginations working together - the final product is so much richer. I also feel incredibly lucky to be able to work with such an accomplished and experienced team.

  Robin Furth

  Team, Dark, Imagination

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• I had no idea what to expect! When the series began, I was new to comics, so I really had to keep my head down and plow forward so that I could learn as much about this new medium as possible. I wanted so much to do a good job and to please Stephen King and all the longtime Dark Tower fans.

  Robin Furth

  Kings, Jobs, Dark

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