Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Stephen KingRead
I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of emotional strength over physical violence.
Stephen King's quote suggests that true strength comes from compassion and understanding, rather than from violence or the use of weapons. By stating that 'I kill with my heart,' he illustrates a deeper moral obligation to hold onto one's humanity and values, contrasting the act of killing with a personal connection to love and family.
Themes
CompassionStrengthViolenceEmotionalHumanity
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the impact of violence in society.
More from Stephen King
All quotes →Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen KingRead
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen KingRead
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen KingRead
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.
Stephen KingRead
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
Stephen KingRead
Similar quotes
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
Maajid NawazRead
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
Assata ShakurRead
When things are going bad, don't get all bummed out. Don't get startled; don't get frustrated. If you can say the word 'good,' guess what? It means you're still alive. It means you're still breathing.
Jocko WillinkRead
To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Read
Communities of color have also had to watch video after video of unarmed black men and women being handled without regard for their lives or well-being. As a black man, I see these images, and I see myself; I wonder whether this will happen to me or one of my loved ones.
Malcolm JenkinsRead
We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.
Tarana BurkeRead