Stephen King Quotes

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

If I missed once, I might never catch up again.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

There is no rewind button for life.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

The words can not return.

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

This is one doodle that can't be un-did, Homeskillet.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

What is done cannot be now amended.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.