# Quote — Stephen King, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

> "So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our mind. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little."

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-iv-wizard-and-glass.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._IV:_Wizard_and_Glass) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [the past](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-iv-wizard-and-glass/so-do-we-pass
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-iv-wizard-and-glass/so-do-we-pass.json

## More from this book

> True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome... except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-iv-wizard-and-glass/true-love-like.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md)

> Time is a face on the water.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-iv-wizard-and-glass/time-is-a-face.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md)

> Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-iv-wizard-and-glass/fools-are-the.md)

Topics: [stupidity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity.md)