Stephen King's best quotes, from The Shining to Shawshank
The top 3 according to 67 votes from people: It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying. · Art consists of the persistence of memory. · I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?. (Updated Oct 18, 2021.)
"Get busy living or get busy dying", "Monsters are real. Ghosts are too" and the friends you had when you were twelve: the most quoted lines of Stephen King's novels and novellas, each with the book it comes from.
Top 15
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It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982).
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Art consists of the persistence of memory.
Misery (1987).
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3
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?
The Body (1982).
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4
Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.
University of Maine commencement address (2005).
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982).
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6
Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.
The Shining (1977).
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7
Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
It (1986).
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8
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982).
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9
I'm tired of people bein' ugly to each other.
The Green Mile (1996).
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10
Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.
"Luckey Quarter", Everything's Eventual (2002).
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11
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
The Body (1982).
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12
Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room!
"1408", Everything's Eventual (2002).
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13
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
The Shining (1977).
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14
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
The Green Mile (1996).
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15
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
Under the Dome (2009).
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