Elevation Quotes

“Everyone should have this, he thought, and perhaps, at the end, everyone does. Perhaps in their time of dying, everyone rises.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“He thought he had discovered one of life's great truths (and one he could have done without): the only thing harder than saying goodbye to yourself, a pound at a time, was saying goodbye to your friends.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“life is what we make it and acceptance is the key to all our affairs.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Why feel bad about what you couldn’t change? Why not embrace it?”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Everything leads to this, he thought. To this elevation. If it's how dying feels, everyone should be glad to go.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“He used to say what you deserve has nothing to do with where you finish.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“You could feel weight, yes—when you were carrying too much, it made you ploddy—but wasn’t it, like time, basically just a human construct? Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality?”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Gravity is the anchor that pulls us down into our graves.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“the past is history, the future's a mystery”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“The night was cold, chilling the sweat on his face, but the air was as sweet and crisp as the first bite of a fall apple. Above him was a half-moon and what seemed like a trillion stars.
To match the trillion pebbles, just as mysterious, that we walk over everyday, he thought. Mystery above, mystery below. Weight, mass, reality: mystery all around.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Not a wind, not even a high, exactly, but an elevation. A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Gravity is the anchor that pulls us down into our graves. There would be no grave for this man, and no more gravity, either. He had been given a special dispensation.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Time is invisible. Unlike weight.
Ah, but maybe that wasn't true. You could feel weight, yes--when you were carrying too much, it made you ploddy--but wasn't it, like time, basically just a human construct? Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren't they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality?”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“He was afraid—it would have been foolish not to be—but he was also curious. And something else. Happy? Was that it? Yes. Probably crazy, but definitely yes. Certainly he felt singled out somehow. Doctor Bob might think that was crazy, but Scott thought it was sane. Why feel bad about what you couldn’t change? Why not embrace it?”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Sometimes he thought of a saying Nora had brought home from her AA meetings: the past is history, the future’s a mystery.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality?”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Jesus shined-up Christ on a trailer hitch.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Then his lungs seemed to open up again, each breath going deeper than the one before. His sneakers (not blinding white Adidas, just ratty old Pumas) seemed to shed the lead coating they had gained. His previous lightness of body came rushing back. It was what Milly had called the following wind, and what pros like McComb no doubt called the runner's high. Scott preferred that. He remembered that day in his yard, flexing his knees, leaping, and catching the branch of the tree. He remembered running up and down the bandstand steps. He remembered dancing across the kitchen floor as Stevie Wonder sang "Superstition." This was the same. Not a wind, not even a high, exactly, but an elevation. A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“but Scott thought it was sane. Why feel bad about what you couldn’t change? Why not embrace it?”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects?”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Plus the cat, of course. He had an idea she had found it harder to leave Bill than to leave him. Scott recognized that was a little bitchy, but how often the truth was.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“And she’s got her old number. 19. We saved it for her special.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Not so long ago he had avoided the bathroom scale because it showed too many pounds; now he stayed away for the opposite reason. The irony was not lost on him. For the time”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“where Route 119 became Bannerman Road, named after the town’s longest serving sheriff, an unlucky fellow who had come to a bad end on one of the town’s back roads.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“It is what it is, right? As Nora used to say when she came home from those meetings of hers: life is what we make it and acceptance is the key to all our affairs.'
Bill yawned.
'But we also change the things we can, don't we? You hold the fort.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“His remaining weight wanted him on the earth; his muscles insisted he rise above it.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“I am so glad to be alive on this day, he thought.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Pennywise and the Clowns.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Above him was a half-moon and what seemed like a trillion stars. To match the trillion pebbles, just as mysterious, that we walk over every day, he thought. Mystery above, mystery below. Weight, mass, reality: mystery all around.”
― Stephen King, Elevation