The best Quotes from The Dark Tower

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

Time is a face on the water

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

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

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's never a good sign.

As for the end of the universe… I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

'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.'

Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

I've had many enemies over the years. If there's one thing I've learned, it's never engage in a fight you're sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you're in a position of strength - even if you no longer need to strike back.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Never say never!

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are a-sholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.