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“A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don’t know how poorly off they are.” (The Green Mile Quotes)
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“But people love a hypocrite, you know they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn’t you.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn’t a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“I think that’s what people most always do with the stuff they can’t make out – just forget it.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I’m tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we’s comin from or goin to or why. I’m tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I’m tired of all the times I’ve wanted to help and couldn’t. I’m tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it’s the pain. There’s too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can’t.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“It was over. We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn’t believe but because they wouldn’t care.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“It’s strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Love among the ruins… I’ll tell you something, my friend: Weird love’s better than no love at all.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss… where we’s comin from or goin to or why… If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can’t.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Sometimes you can’t help people. Sometimes it’s better not even to try.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It’s strange, but it’s true.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short skirts and men with their shirts hanging open.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“The world turns, that’s all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right off.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“There is a skull in every man, and I tell you there is a skull in the lives of all men. They saw it that day, those men. They saw what sometimes grins behind the smile.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy—anyone who’ suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I’m talking about.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Weird love’s better than no love at all.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can’t help getting a little dirty yourself.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
“Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.”
Stephen King
The Green Mile
