The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

by Stephen King

You needn’t die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end

So much you did and so much more you would have done, aye, and all without a check or qualm, 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.

“A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

The need to recreate the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place.

before victory comes temptation. And the greater the victory to win, the greater the temptation to withstand.”

Then she screamed. There were no words in it, nor could there have been. Our greatest moments of triumph are always inarticulate. FOUR

Sympathy was to respect the feelings of another. Empathy was to actually share those feelings.

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.