Stephen King Quotes

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

You pay a price for everything in life.

When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

There's always a price for what you want.

This is part of the price we pay, I guess, for living in paradise.

Nothing good happens without a penalty.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

Nothing comes without a price.

The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

No Victory Without Suffering

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.