Tower Quotes

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'

I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'

Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.

Brown nodded. "I think this is it.”
― Stephen King

“The hands pulled him forward regardless. The hands of the Tower knew no mercy.

They were the hands of Gan, the hands of ka, and they knew no mercy.

He smelled alkali, bitter as tears. The desert beyond the door was white; blinding; waterless; without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze of the mountains which sketched themselves on the horizon. The smell beneath the alkali was that of the devil-grass which brought sweet dreams, nightmares, death.

But not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct.

May I be brutally frank? You go on.

And each time you forget the last time. For you, each time is the first time.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.”
― Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower

“The trap had a ghastly perfection”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation.”
― Toba Beta

“Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare
Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery
Can leave the mother, murdered at her door,
To crawl in her own blood, and go scott-free;
The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy,
And planned to bring the world under rule,
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.”
― W. B. Yeats

“I wish I could build you a cage, little bird, or a beautiful tower, to keep you safe from the corrupt, cynical world.
You don’t know how precious it is to be naive and innocent. I only want to protect you, so you can sing and be free like the golden bird you were born to be.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“On all sides of us, spread out below, are little white lights and black pockets of trees. Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I hate to admit it, but it’s beautiful.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Stalked by wolves, eaten by witches, and trapped in a tower for over a decade. No one's life is a fairytale, or at least I would hope not!”
― Carolyn Watson Dubisch, The Dragon in The Closet: The Curse

“Gripped by a feverish urge to climb, he felt like running up the stone stairs. People often talk of the attraction of the abyss. There is also the abyss above. Borluut was still going up; he would have liked to keep on going up for ever, melancholy at the thought that the stairway was doubtless going to stop and that at the end, on the edge of the air, he would still yearn to continue, go farther, higher.”
― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

“The spiral staircase suddenly narrows, swirls like a stream drying up. Can he still get through up there, or is he going to be crushed against the sides? All at once the darkness increased. Borluut felt he had already climbed more than a hundred steps, but he had not thought to count. By now his pace had adjusted to a rhythmical tread, instinctively shortened to adapt to the stone steps. But plunging into impenetrable darkness disoriented his senses. Borluut no longer knew in which direction he was going, whether forwards or backwards, whether up or down. Unable to see himself, it was in vain that he tried to determine which way his steps were taking him. He had the feeling he was descending, making his way down a subterranean staircase, in a deep mine, far from the light of day, through motionless landscapes of coal, and that he was going to come to a lake...”
― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

“Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue in dream and which we all complete within ourselves!”
― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

“When the government will not let you submit evidence about the known toxicity of cell phone towers to public planning hearings, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly rigged system.”
― Steven Magee

“日向：啊！那個是不是東京鐵塔啊？
孤爪：呃…那個是…那個是…普通的鐵塔...
黑尾：怎麼？宮城縣沒有鐵塔嗎？他們的對話，我上次好像聽過。
影山：（那個…不是東京鐵塔…嗎？）
澤村：在外縣市的人眼裡，位於東京的鐵塔，看起來都像東京鐵塔啦！
菅原：喂！別亂講，還有，這裡是埼玉縣。”
― 古舘春一, ハイキュー!! 10

“He was made a prisoner in the Tower of London and stripped of his property. He remained imprisoned in the tower until 1646.”
― Zita Steele, Makers of America: A Personal Family History

“I regard cell phone towers as miniature Sun’s that never set and are shining their toxic radiation 24 hours a day.”
― Steven Magee

“Walking around in very high powered electromagnetic fields produced by cell phone towers and satellites is probably the most unnatural thing that the modern human engages in.”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to experience what it is like to live in Space, buy a home next to a cell phone tower.”
― Steven Magee

“The power of God is an unshakeable tower, which humanity can rely on.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Do you have 5Gitis?”
― Steven Magee

“Thus, Θήρα”
― Minoaristw

“The captain left with his back straight and his nose in the air. In his wake, Dagmar poked her head around the doorframe. “You never can tell with His Majesty, can you?”after which she retreated to the mystical trappings of her tower.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge