Stephen King Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.

  Stephen King

  Loss, Dark, Gun

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

• Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

  Stephen King

  Time, Blow, Wind

  Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

• Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Mind, Towers

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

• Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Moon, Sky

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

• Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Gears, Machines

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

• Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Dark, Skins

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.409, Anchor

• As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

  Stephen King

  Fire, Ice, Darkness

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

• There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

  Stephen King

  Happiness, Prayer, Dark

• The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

  Stephen King

  Size, Mystery, Universe

• The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

  Stephen King

  Size, Mystery, Dark Tower

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

• She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

  Stephen King

  Children, Cat, Rainy Day

  Stephen King (2009). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.1062, Simon and Schuster

• It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.

  Stephen King

  Glasses, Axes, World

• How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?" If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?" Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story.

  Stephen King

  Book, Destiny, Giving

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

• The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.

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  Thinking, Brain, Mind

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

• When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.

  Stephen King

  War, Dirty, White

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

• There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.

  Stephen King

  Hands, May, Tick

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

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