"The Stand" Quotes
A deadly virus wipes out most of the world's population, leaving the survivors to choose between good and evil as they struggle to rebuild society.
horror | 1153 pages | Published in 1978
Quotes
When things are at their worst I find something always turns up.
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'.
Freedom, if it means anything, means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear.
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.
The world has moved on, and so have we.
The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... or change.
The place of exile had become a city of refuge.
People had no business being happy, because they were trying to live in a world that didn't care if they were happy or not.
