Stephen King: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 12)

“You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.”

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

“If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.”

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”

“Words have weight.”

“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”

“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”

“The past is obdurate.”

“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”

“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”

“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.”

“The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

“Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

“Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.”

“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”

“Weird love's better than no love at all.”