Stephen King on Philosophy
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Stephen King, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to Stephen King and filed under "Philosophy" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Stephen King, entry #105681: "Sometimes, Delores, you have to be a high riding bitch in order to survive, because being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to."
Attributed to Stephen King, entry #218521: "The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book, Annie, is because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end."
8 Quotes by Stephen King on Philosophy
"Sometimes, Delores, you have to be a high riding bitch in order to survive, because being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to."
"The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book, Annie, is because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end."
"Tomorrowland, it seemed, ended up being an empty place where people smart enough to capture the stars got mad and tore each other to shreds with the claws on their feet."
"Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual."
"Worlds sometimes shudder and turn inside their axes, and this was such a time. Flagg felt it, but did not grasp it. The salvation of all that is good is only this — at times of great import, evil beings sometimes fall strangely blind."
"It takes the average human seven minutes to go to sleep, but according to Hand's Human Physiology, it takes the same average human fifteen to twenty minutes to wake up. It is as if sleep is a pool from which emerging is more difficult than entering. When the sleeper wakes, he or she comes up by degrees, from deep sleep to light sleep to what is sometimes called "waking sleep," a state in which the sleeper can hear sounds and will even respond to questions without being aware of it later... except perhaps as fragments of dreams."
"Don't forget that you're a physical being with a power-plant to take care of and maintain. I'm talking about the bod under the blue gown. I'm not going to say that we're a lazy, overweight society, a fast-food eatin', SUV-ridin', soda-guzzlin', beer-chuggin', TV-watchin', size-XL-wearin', walk-don't-run generation...except I guess I just did."
"The elevator doors slid shut behind him; there was a hum as it began to go up automatically. It wouldn't come down again unless somebody else keyed it, Starkey knew; as soon as the installation's integrity had been breached, the computers had switched all the elevators to the general containment program. Why were these poor men and women lying here? Obviously they had been hoping the computers would fuck up the switch-over to the emergency procedures. Why not? It even had a certain logic to it. Everything else had fucked up."