Stephen King Quotes

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

I don't like change.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

Do you have your own room, Charlie Brown?" "Oh, yes... I have a very nice room." "I hope you realize that you won't always have your own room... Someday you'll get drafted or something, and you'll have to leave your room forever!" "Why do you tell me things like that?" "It's on a list I've made up for you... I call it, Things You Might As Well Know!

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.