Stephen King Quotes

Reality is a fragile thing.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

I think reality is over-rated

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.

The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down