Best Richard Bachman Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“And if a collection of bad cells no bigger than a walnut could destroy all those things, those things that are so personal that they can never be properly articulated, so personal you hardly dared admit their existence to yourself, what did that leave? How could you trust life again? How could you see it as anything more meaningful than a Saturday night demolition derby?”

Life Trust Broken Remorse Richard Bachman Roadwork

Book:Roadwork

Source: Roadwork

“It hurt me with its inevitability. They all find out sooner or later how unchic it is to pop your buttons at the Sadie Hawkins dance, or to crawl into the trunk so you can get into the drive-in for free. They stop eating pizza and plugging dimes into the juke down at Fat Sammy’s. They stop kissing boys in the blueberry patch. And they always seem to end up looking like Barbie doll cutouts in Jack and Jill magazine. Fold in at Slot A, Slot B, and Slot C. Watch Her Grow Old Before Your Very Eyes.”

Rage Inevitable Ironic Cynical Richard Bachman

Book:Rage

Source: Rage

“The sooner Harkness stopped walking, the sooner he could stop walking. That was the simple truth. That was logic. But something went deeper, a truer, more frightening logic. Harkness was a part of the group that Garraty was a part of, a segment of his subclan. Part of a magic circle that Garraty belonged to. And if one part of that circle could be broken, any part of it could be broken.”

Logic Stephen King The Long Walk Richard Bachman Garraty Magic Circle Broken Friendship Circle Friendship Circle Harkness

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk”

Death Dying Loneliness Dead The Long Walk Richard Bachman

Author:Richard Bachman

“Sure they're animals. You think you just found out a new principle? Sometimes I wonder just how naive you really are. The French lords and ladies used to screw after the guillotinings. The old Romans used to stuff each other during the gladiatorial matches. That's entertainment, Garraty. It's nothing new.”

Animals Immoral Stephen King Animal Behavior Animalistic The Long Walk Richard Bachman Garraty Mcvries Morbid Entertainment

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“Death is great for the appetites. How about those two girls and Gribble? They wanted to see what screwing a dead man felt like. Now for Something Completely New and Different. I don't know if Gribble got much out of it, but they sure as shit did. It's the same with anybody. It doesn't matter if they're eating or drinking or sitting on their cans. They like it better, they feel it and taste it better because they're watching dead men.”

Death Novelty Stephen King Dead Man The Long Walk Richard Bachman Garraty Mcvries Appetite For Death Gribble

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“It took me a while to figure it out, but it was faster after I got around that mental block. Walk or die, that's the moral of this story. Simple as that. It's not survival of the physically fittest, that's where I went wrong when I let myself get into this. If it was, I'd have a fair chance. But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. It isn't man or God. It's something... in the brain.”

Brain Willpower Stephen King Brain Power Willpower Quotes The Long Walk Richard Bachman Garraty Mcvries Walk Or Die

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“You're dumb, Garraty. You and me and Pearson and Barkovitch and Stebbins, we're all dumb. Scramm's dumb because he thinks he understands and he doesn't. Olson's dumb because he understood too much too late.”

Stupid Dumb Stephen King Dumb People You And Me The Long Walk Richard Bachman Garraty Mcvries Stebbins

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“We don't bring anything into the world and we sure as shit don't take anything out.”

World Life Lessons Life Quotes Life And Death Stephen King The Long Walk Richard Bachman Garraty Mcvries

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to see that line got. Until finally there was nothing but smooth sand and the black hole of nothingness that you came out of. The memories were in a way like the road. Here it was real and hard and tangible. But that early road, that nine in the morning road, was far back and meaningless.”

Memories Nothingness Stephen King Black Hole Meaninglessness Memories Quotes The Long Walk Richard Bachman Garraty Mcvries

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“Look at that Barkovitch. He ain't in it to get no Prize. He's just walkin' to see other people die. He lives on it. When someone gets a ticket, he gets a little more go-power. It ain't enough. He'll dry up just like a leaf on a tree.”

Stephen King Sadistic Schadenfreude The Long Walk Richard Bachman Garraty Mcvries Barkovitch Scramm

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“He's almost there now," McVries said at his elbow, startling him. "When they start half-hoping someone will shoot them so they can rest their feet, they're not far away.”

Stephen King The Long Walk Almost There Richard Bachman Garraty Mcvries Hoping For Death Olson

Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years.”

Love Marriage Expression Stephen King Richard Bachman The Regulators

Book:The Regulators

Source: The Regulators