The King Quotes

“The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.”
― Steven James, The King

“There are many times when second thoughts become chains on your soul.”
― Steven James, The King

“Do you know how to turn someone into a monster?” “I’m not sure. No.” “Let him be himself without restraint.”
― Steven James, The King

“It’s deeply disturbing to think about how many people in the world are dying inside, screaming for someone, anyone, to care, reaching out again and again, sometimes to the hand that slaps them, because, all too often, without that hand they have nothing at all.”
― Steven James, The King

“finding God brings meaning into every moment—I”
― Steven James, The King

“There are some questions, after all, that we never get answers to. Some doors remain locked forever, and that’s life.”
― Steven James, The King

“What would it be like to think what a gerbil thinks, from a gerbil's point of view? Kind of like Thomas Nigel's 1974 paper, 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' There's a subjective character of experience that's never captured in reductive accounts. Know what I mean?'
'Um . . . Sure.”
― Steven James, The King

“Justice doesn’t always have clean hands, and we all have dark desires clawing at our wills.”
― Steven James, The King

“Prometheus did as he was bidden, and this is the reason why some people have the forms of men but the souls of beasts. The forms of men but the souls of beasts.”
― Steven James, The King

“opening lines of Ecclesiastes: “‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
― Steven James, The King

“She told herself the mantra of all addicts: that she could always quit tomorrow.”
― Steven James, The King

“What would it look like to live in awe of every moment? To really, really see the terrible splendor, the delicate wonder of life?”
― Steven James, The King

“The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery”
― Steven James, The King

“Good thought.” “Brineesha said she’d”
― Steven James, The King

“worry of being heard.”
― Steven James, The King

“Relationships fall apart when the guy turns into a wimp or the girl has no more secrets.”
― Steven James, The King

“Life is for living, for moving on, for letting the past lie behind us.”
― Steven James, The King