Cell Quotes

“At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. And that is what the Pulse exposed five days ago.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“He said the mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Three days ago we not only ruled the earth, we had survivor's guilt about all the other species we'd wiped out on our climb to the nirvana of round-the-clock cable news and microwave popcorn. Now we're the Flashlight People.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Clay said, "If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume-"

"We can't assume anything," [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. "My father says assume makes an ass out of you and me. Get it, u and-"

"I get it," Clay said.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Although neither the Freudians nor the Jungians come right out and say it, they strongly suggest that we may have a core, a single basic carrier wave, or-to use language with which Jordan is comfortable-a single line of written code which cannot be stripped.'
'The PD,' Jordan said. 'The prime directive'.
'Yes,' the Head agreed. 'At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens at all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Deduce is absurd and dangerous”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Can a mordern city burn,' he asked Tom. 'One made mostly of concrete and metal and glass? Could it burn the way Chicago did after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern?”
― Stephen King, Cell

“It would occur to him later that the body knows how to fight when it has to. That it’s a secret the body keeps, just as it does the secrets of how to run or jump a creek or throw a fuck or—quite likely—die when there’s no other choice. That under conditions of extreme stress it simply takes over and does what needs doing while the brain stands off to one side, unable to do anything but whistle and tap its foot”
― Stephen King, Cell

“At half past three, in the ditch of the night, Alice said: “Oh, Mummy, too bad! Fading roses, this garden’s over.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“His cock swung from side to side like the pendulum of a grandfather clock on speed.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“That tight little accent grated on Clay’s frayed nerves. He thought that if it had been a fart, it would have been the kind that comes out sounding like a party-horn blown by a kid with asthma.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“It'll be all right, Clay. Really." "So you say, but you have a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur." "That's true," Tom said, "but they're balanced out by poor self-image and ego menstruation at roughly six week intervals...”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Human aggression is instinctual. Humans have not evolved any ritualized aggression-inhibiting mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species. For this reason man is considered a very dangerous animal. KONRAD LORENZ”
― Stephen King, Cell

“I don't know why the phone-people want all the 'normies' in Kashwak, but I know what a roundup usually means for the cattle.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“He did it with a teacher's natural assumptions: lecturing was his responsibility, interruption his privilege.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“have no interest in handing down an indictment of mankind. If I did, I’d point out that for every Michelangelo there’s a Marquis de Sade, for every Gandhi an Eichmann, for every Martin Luther King an Osama bin Laden. Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.” He”
― Stephen King, Cell

“En el fondo no somos homo sapiens, pues nuestro núcleo es la locura, y la directiva primordial, el asesinato. Lo que Darwin fue demasiado educado para expresar, amigos míos, es que no llegamos a dominar el mundo porque seamos los más inteligentes ni los más malvados, sino porque siempre hemos sido los cabrones más chiflados y asesinos de toda la selva.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Dodge had a good time, too.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“La inteligencia humana terminó por imponerse al instinto asesino, y la razón sofocó los impulsos más dementes de los hombres.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“She’s like Ahab on the prod for Moby,” the Head remarked. “Eminem might have been a jerk, but he was right about that guy,” Tom said morosely. “I beg your pardon, Tom?” the Head asked. Tom waved it away.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“He didn't love being called an animal, but couldn't deny that was what he was: oxygen and food in, carbon dioxide and shit out, pop goes the weasel.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Mankind’s intelligence finally trumped mankind’s killer instinct”
― Stephen King, Cell

“...Tepedeki Hayaletli Ev'i okumuş muydun?"
Clay şaşırarak başını iki yana salladı. "Filmini görmüştüm."
"Kitapta şu anki durumu anlatan bir cümle var... 'Yolculuklar sevenlerin kavuşmasıyla biter.' Bakarsın oğlunla tanışma fırsatım olur.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Tom başını iki yana salladı. "Yalnız yaşıyorum. Rafe hariç tabii. Kendini kral sanıyor ama sadece bir kedi işte.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Annem ve iki kız kardeşi," dedi Tom. "Kurtarıcı İsa Kilisesi
İsa'yı kişisel kurtarıcıları olarak kabul ettiler ve kilise de onları kişisel sağmal inekleri olarak kabul edip kucak açtı."
"Annen şimdi nerede?" diye sordu Clay.
Tom, ona kısaca baktı. "Cennette. Tabii onu o konuda da üçkağıda getirmedilerse. Getirdiklerine neredeyse eminim.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Çünkü Bay Ricardi daha sonra mantığın sesini dinlemişti. Belki fırsat verilse çoğu insan yapardı.”
― Stephen King, Cell