The Stand Quotes

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“A person can’t change all at once.” (The Stand Quotes)
Stephen King
The Stand

“And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you’re inside.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“Dreams are the psyche’s way of taking a good dump every now and then. And that people who dream – or don’t dream in a way they can often remember when they wake up – are mentally constipated in some way.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?”
Stephen King
The Stand

“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate – they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“It doesn’t matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“She couldn’t be on his wavelength all the time. That’s all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance…logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”
Stephen King
The Stand

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“The year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the night milk of fantasy.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud’s being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more – that dreams are the psyche’s way of taking a good dump every now and then.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“Under the California desert and subsidized by the taxpayers’ money, someone had finally invented a chain letter that really worked. A very lethal chain letter.”
Stephen King
The Stand

“You just couldn’t get hold of the things you had done and turn them right again. Such power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to men and women, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.”
Stephen King
The Stand