The Outsider Quotes

“If you can’t let go of the past, the mistakes you’ve made will eat you alive.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Reality is thin ice, but most people skate on it their whole lives and never fall through until the very end. We did fall through, but we helped each other out. We’re still helping each other.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“people had the mistaken idea that Poe wrote fantastic stories about the supernatural, when in fact he wrote realistic stories about abnormal psychology.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Dreams are the way we touch the unseen world,”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Doesn’t look like a monster, does he?” “They rarely do.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“I believe there’s another dozen thoughts lined up behind each one I’m aware of.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Just promise me you’ll stop every once in a while and acknowledge the day, honey. It’s the only one you’ll have until tomorrow.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.’ ”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“It was no dream she said. Dreams fade. Reality doesn't.”
― Stephen King, Outsider

“I would like to believe in God,” she said, “because I don’t want to believe we just end, even though it balances the equation—since we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it’s to blackness we return. But I believe in the stars, and the infinity of the universe. That’s the great Out There. Down here, I believe there are more universes in every fistful of sand, because infinity is a two-way street.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“When you get old, peace is about all you want.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Once you eliminate the natural, whatever remains must be supernatural?”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“I had a friend who used to tell me that all the time,” Holly said, and suddenly felt like crying. It was that phrase—I had a friend. Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Dreams are the way we touch the unseen world, that’s what I believe. They are a special gift.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it’s to blackness we return.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Like measles, mumps, or rubella, tragedy was contagious. Unlike those diseases, there was no vaccine.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Money was no cure for sorrow, Alec reflected, but it did allow one to grieve in relative comfort.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“My tongue runs like a supermarket conveyor belt on payday.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“I’m a defense lawyer, son. I can believe anything.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Down here, I believe there are more universes in every fistful of sand, because infinity is a two-way street”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Maybe that was strange. Maybe it was sad. Maybe it was what literary types called irony.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show. Colin Wilson “The Country of the Blind”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“I would like to believe in God,” she said, “because I don’t want to believe we just end, even though it balances the equation—since we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it’s to blackness we return. But I believe in the stars, and the infinity of the universe. That’s the great Out There. Down here, I believe there are more universes in every fistful of sand, because infinity is a two-way street. I believe there’s another dozen thoughts in my head lined up behind each one I’m aware of. I believe in my consciousness and my unconscious, even though I don’t know what those things are. And I believe in A. Conan Doyle, who had Sherlock Holmes say, ‘Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“person did what a person could, whether it was setting up gravestones or trying to convince twenty-first-century men and women that there were monsters in the world, and their greatest advantage was the unwillingness of rational people to believe.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Strip away the metaphors, Jeannie had said, and you are left with the inexplicable. The supernatural. Only that’s not possible. The supernatural may exist in books and movies, but not in the real world.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“I believe in my consciousness and my unconscious, even though I don’t know what those things are.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Strange, the things you noticed when your day—your life—suddenly went over a cliff you hadn’t even known was there.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider