Doctor Sleep Quotes

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“No great thing is created suddenly.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“We're only as sick as our secrets.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The world's just a hospice with fresh air.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word:

REDRUM”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“I’m not scared of hell. I lived a decent life, and I don’t think there is such a place, anyway. I’m scared there’s nothing.” He struggled for breath. A pearl of blood was swelling in the corner of his right eye. “There was nothing before, we all know that, so doesn’t it stand to reason that there’s nothing after?” “But there is.” Dan wiped Charlie’s face with the damp cloth. “We never really end, Charlie. I don’t know how that can be, or what it means, I only know that it is.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“You didn't get sober to be stupid, Danny. Keep it in mind the next time you start listening to that itty-bitty shitty committee inside your head.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Lots of people have got a little of what I call the shining, but mostly it's just a twinkle---the kind of thing that lets em know what the DJ's going to play next on the radio or that the phone's gonna ring pretty soon.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep