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The Green Mile QUOTES

The Green Mile QUOTES

1 " Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

2 " We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

3 " About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. 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. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

4 " 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

5 " Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

6 " 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

7 " The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

8 " 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

9 " 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. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

10 " What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

11 " 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

12 " 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

13 " That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

14 " 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

15 " 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

16 " 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

17 " Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

18 " Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

19 " The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile

20 " The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain. "

― Stephen King , The Green Mile