The Mist Quotes

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”
― Stephen King

“Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“This is what happened.”
― Stephen King

“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

“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

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

“Even when the mist fogs up our sight still there is a way out.”
― Victor Bello Accioly