The Mist Quotes

“You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think - I did - that God put you on earth to blow your father away.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“I had a dream that I saw God walking across Harrison on the far side of the lake, a God so gigantic that above the waist He was lost in a clear blue sky. In the dream I could hear the rending crack and splinter of breaking trees as God stamped the woods into the shape of His footsteps. He was circling the lake, coming toward the Bridgton side, toward us, and all the houses and cottages and summer places were bursting into purple-white flame like lightning, and soon the smoke covered everything. The smoke covered everything like a mist.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Something in the fog!" he screamed, and Billy shrank against me-whether because of the man's bloody nose or what he was saying, I don't know. "Something in the fog took John Lee! Something-" He staggered back against a display of lawn food stacked by the window and sat down there."Something in the fog took John Lee and I heard him screaming!”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“I realized with fresh horror that new doors of perception were opening up inside.
New? Not so. OLD doors of perception.
The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe. Children see everything their eyes happen upon, hear everything in their ears' range. But if life is the rise of consciousness…, then it is also the reduction of input. Terror is the widening of perspective and perception. The horror was in knowing I was swimming down to a place most of us leave when we get out of diapers and into training pants. I could see it on Ollie's face, too. When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“I remembered talking with a writer friend who lived in Otisfield and supported his wife and two kids by raising chickens and turning out one paperback original a year — spy stories. We had gotten talking about the bulge in popularity of books concerning themselves with the supernatural. Gault pointed out that in the forties Weird Tales had only been able to pay a pittance, and then in the fifties it went broke. When the machines fail, he had said (while his wife candled eggs and roosters crowed querulously outside), when the technologies fail, when the conventional religious systems fail, people have got to have something. Even a zombie lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assault of a million fluorocarbon spray cans of deodorant.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Ahora agárrame el brazo, agárrate fuerte, vamos hacia lugares tenebrosos, pero creo conocer el camino, de todos modos, no sueltes mi brazo. Y si recibes un beso en la oscuridad, ni te alteres: es que te quiero.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Old trees want to hurt you. It doesn't matter if you're snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, or just taking a walk in the woods. Old trees want to hurt you, and I think they'd kill you if they could.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“El terror sobrecogedor y cruel no sólo acecha en lo que viene de fuera, también en lo que percibimos dentro de nosotros.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Crazy isn't the best word; perhaps I just can't think of the proper one. But there were these people who had lapsed into a complete stupor without benefit of beer, wine, or pills. They stared at you with blank and shiny doorknob eyes.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“There are things of such darkness and horror – just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty – that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“One of those terrible visions came to me - I think they are reserved exclusively for husbands and fathers - of the picture window blowing in with a low hard coughing sound and sending jagged arrows of glass into my wife's bare stomach, into my boy's face and neck. The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Billy is a bright boy, but oddly humorless. To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Bigger tomatoes with a longer growing season," Dick said sagely, and then went back to showing me how I could help my family most efficiently by dying young.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“¿Sabes qué es el talento? Es la maldición de ambicionar.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Er zijn dingen, zo duister en gruwelijk- zoals er ook dingen zijn van zo'n schoonheid - dat ze niet door de petieterige deuren van de menselijke waarneming kunnen.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Significa que no hay marcas permanentes [...] Quizá se tarden vien años, o mil, pero ocurrirá. Porque no hay marcas definitivas. Existe el cero, y la eternidad, y la muerte, pero no existe nada definitivo.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Если людей пугать достаточно сильно и достаточно долго, они пойдут за любым, кто пообещает спасение.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“...then went back to showing me how I could help my family most efficiently by dying young.”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow.” -Stephen King, The Mist”
― Stephen King, The Mist

“Er und ich hatten die Tentakel gesehen. Die Vorstellung, Salz auf sie zu streuen oder zu versuchen, sie mit den Stielen von Besen und O'Cedar-Mopps zu vertreiben, hatte auf schreckliche Weise etwas Komisches an sich.”
― Stephen King, Der Nebel

“Bringen Sie ein paar davon mit, damit wir wissen, dass Sie auch wirklich nach hinten gegangen sind. Wenn Sie das schaffen, bin ich gern bereit, mein Hemd auszuziehen und es zu essen."
Norton begann zu toben.”
― Stephen King, Der Nebel