The Stand Quotes

“Sometimes . . . real love is silent as well as blind.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:love silence

“love is what moves the world, I’ve always thought.. it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl...”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:love

“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

topic:love fear darkness

“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:death loneliness madness

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

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:God humanity

“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... or change.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“a person can’t change all at once.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:change

“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

topic:change

“When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time,' and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time,...”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:writing work simplicity

“I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:writing

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