The Long Walk Quotes

“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”
― Richard Bachman

“I thought maybe you'd wish for friends because you don't have any. We'll all be glad to see you die. No one's going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I'll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe we all will." - Garraty (to Barkovitch), The Long Walk”
― Richard Bachman

“Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.”
― Stephen King

“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.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“We don't bring anything into the world and we sure as shit don't take anything out.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“I was one in a million. I wasn't bright enough to realize the circus fat lady is, too”
― Stephen King

“He looked at the road quite a lot now. Sometimes the white line was solid, sometimes it was broken, and sometimes it was double like streetcar tracks. He wondered how people could ride over this road all the other days of the year and not see the pattern of life and death in that white paint. Or did they see, after all?”
― Stephen King, 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.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“Todos los juegos son limpios si todo el mundo es engañado a la vez”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Si hay un... un después, espero que no esté oscuro. Y espero que se pueda recordar. Odio la idea de vagar eternamente entre tinieblas, sin saber quién era o qué hacía, o incluso sin saber que había sido otra cosa distinta en otro tiempo”
― Stephen King, 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.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“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.”
― Richard Bachman, 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.”
― Richard Bachman, 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.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“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.”
― Richard Bachman, 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.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“All I'm focusing on is pickin' 'em up and layin' 'em down.”
― Stephen King

“It didn’t scare him the way he had thought it would. There was still the unshakable, blind assurances that this organism Ray Garraty could not die. The others could die, they were extras in the movie of his life, but not Ray Garraty, star of that long-running hit film, The Ray Garraty Story.”
― Stephen King

“Dein Plan und das Zeug, das aus meinem Arschloch kommt, haben eine verdächtige Ähnlichkeit miteinander”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Der einzige Unterschied ist bloß, dass wir im Augenblick mit dem Sterben zu tun haben.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Dieser gottverdammte Barkovitch, der auf einer hohen Oktanzahl von Hass läuft. Er läuft immer weiter und sieht so frisch aus wie eine Butterblume”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Garraty betrachtete die Szene apathisch und dachte, dass sich sogar das Entsetzen abnutzte. Sogar vom Tod konnte es ein Übermaß geben.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“»Aber, aber, Jungs«, sagte McVries. Er hatte sich erholt und war wieder der alte Ironiker. »Warum erledigt ihr die Sache nicht wie Gentlemen? Der Erste, der den Kopf abgeschossen kriegt, muss dem anderen ein Bier ausgeben.«”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Vater unser, der du bist in Alufolie, geheiligt werde dein Name.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Sie sind Tiere, das ist richtig. Aber warum bist du dir so gottverdammt sicher, dass uns das zu Menschen macht?”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Als Sechzehnjähriger kannst du heutzutage nicht mehr über die Qualen der Jugendliebe reden, ohne dich gleich wie ein beschissener Ron Howard mit einem Ständer anzuhören.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Jedes Spiel sieht fair aus, wenn alle Teilnehmer gleichermaßen betrogen werden.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Am Leben zu bleiben kann man wohl kaum ein Hobby nennen.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Das Gesicht eines Gründungsvaters und die Mentalität eines syphilitischen Esels”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk