Dark Tower Series Quotes:

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

topic: Necks, Dark Tower, Dark Tower Series

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

- Stephen King

source: "The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla". Book by Stephen King, 2003.

topic: Guy, Definitions, Dark Tower Series, Wanderers

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

- Stephen King

topic: Love, Friendship, Fake People, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

- Stephen King

topic: Father, Eye, Heart, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Heart, Beast, Loveless, Dark Tower Series

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Hope, Pain, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth (2013). “Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Man In Black”, p.137, Marvel Entertainment

topic: Men, Black, Desert, Gunslinger, Favourite Book

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

- Stephen King

topic: Judging, Coward, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Lying, Fiction, Rockers, Dark Tower Series

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

topic: Towers, May, Dark Tower, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lying, Dark Tower, Truth Is, Dark Tower Series

True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Strong, Kissing, Dark Tower Series, Give And Take

Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

topic: Reality, Mind, Towers, Nexus, Gunslinger

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wind, Would Be, Why Not, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2419, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Life, Darkness, Day And Night, Inspirational Good Night

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

- Stephen King

topic: Fall, What If, Dark Tower, Dark Tower Series

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Years, Battle, Legends, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

- Bill Haley

source: Song: See You Later, Alligator, Album: Rock Around the Clock

topic: Alligators, Crocodiles, Dark Tower Series

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

- Stephen King

topic: Dark, Hair, Shadow, Dark Tower Series

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

- Eddie Dean

topic: Mean, Thinking, People, Dark Tower Series

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

- Stephen King

topic: Girl, Boys, Men, Dark Tower Series, Deschain

Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Numbers, Doors, Still Hoping, Dark Tower Series

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

- Stephen King

topic: Religious, Atheist, Religion, Maniacs, Dark Tower Series

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

- Stephen King

topic: Men, Two, Enemy, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

- Stephen King

topic: Fall, Stones, Rooms, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

- Stephen King

topic: Children, Doe, Ever After, Living Happily Ever After, Dark Tower Series

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mind, Dark Tower, Dare, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

- Stephen King

topic: Halloween, Other Worlds, World, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

topic: Earth, Fool, Dark Tower, Dark Tower Series

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

- Stephen King

source: "The Dark Tower. Wizard and Glass". Book by Stephen King, Vol. IV, 1997.

topic: Imagination, Dark Tower, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hate, Thinking, World, Dark Tower Series, Deschain

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2003). “Wizard and Glass”, Viking Press

topic: Evil, Opinion, Dark Tower, Dark Tower Series

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

- Stephen King

topic: Lying, Philosophy, Faults, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower

Control the things you can control .

- Samantha Stosur

topic: Tennis, Motivational Tennis, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower, Mentally Strong

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'

- Eddie Dean

topic: Heart, Purple, World, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

topic: Size, Mystery, Dark Tower, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

- Stephen King

topic: Heart, Years, Broken, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Brain, Mind, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.817, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, Journey, Goal, Dark Tower Series, Goal Oriented

The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower I (MTI): The Gunslinger”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lying, Men, Two, Gunslinger, Dark Tower Series

[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole world about Roland left to know. I've got questions. He'd have answers. So pour him a glass of wine.

- Megan Chance

source: Source: www.omnivoracious.com

topic: Kings, Wine, Character, Dark Tower Series, Fictional Character

Because I was new to comics, I didn't know what to expect! However, I really like working collaboratively [on Dark Tower series], since I feel that - with so many different imaginations working together - the final product is so much richer. I also feel incredibly lucky to be able to work with such an accomplished and experienced team.

- Robin Furth

source: Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

topic: Team, Dark, Imagination, Dark Tower Series, Dark Tower