Stephen King Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Night, Men

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.182, Anchor

• The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Battle, Fascinating

• Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

  Stephen King

  Fall, Evil, Waiting

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

• It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Cost, Achieve

• But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Sleep, Night

• If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Earth, Deeds

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Evil, Enchantment

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.103, Anchor

• I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Opinion, Dark Tower

  Stephen King (2003). “Wizard and Glass”, Viking Press

• When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.

  Stephen King

  Children, Nice, Book

• Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

  Stephen King

  Tombstone, Years, Space

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

• There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be."

  Stephen King

  Cancer, Fall, Sky

• I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Nice, Believe

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

• I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Evil, Gone

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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