--- title: "9 Cruel Quotes By Stephen King" description: "9 Cruel quotes by Stephen King. Plus more from Stephen King and more Cruel sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/stephen-king-13_cruel_god-is-cruel-david-said-in-a-voice-almos_3176347.jpg" --- > [“God is cruel,” David said in a voice almost too low to hear.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/god-is-cruel-david-said-in-a-voice-almost-too-low-to-hear/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/stephen-king-13_cruel_god-is-cruel-david-said-in-a-voice-almos_3176347.jpg) > [God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/god-is-cruel-sometimes-he-makes-you-live/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cee/stephen-king-13_god_god-is-cruel-sometimes-he-makes-you-live_1502716.jpg) > [“...sometimes the truth is cruel.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/sometimes-the-truth-is-cruel/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bad/stephen-king-13_truth_sometimes-the-truth-is-cruel-1217412_1217412.jpg) > [Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/do-you-know-how-cruel-your-god-can-be-david-how-fantastically-cruel/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/577/stephen-king-13_cruel_do-you-know-how-cruel-your-god-can-be-da_2478423.jpg) > [“How cruel would a supreme being have to be to make a world as fucked-up as this one?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/how-cruel-would-a-supreme-being-have-to-be-to-make-a-world-as-fucked/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45e/stephen-king-13_cruel_how-cruel-would-a-supreme-being-have-to_2594266.jpg) > [I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-know-life-is-hard-i-think-everyone-knows-that-in-their-hearts-but/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7c/stephen-king-13_bite_i-know-life-is-hard-i-think-everyone-kno_501386.jpg) > [“...I'm ANGRY. I know life is hard, I think EVERYONE knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-m-angry-i-know-life-is-hard-i-think-everyone-knows-that-in-their/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02a/stephen-king-13_anger_i-m-angry-i-know-life-is-hard-i-think-ev_3182254.jpg) > [You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/you-said-god-is-cruel-the-way-a-person-who-s-lived-his-whole-life-on/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a2/stephen-king-13_boys_you-said-god-is-cruel-the-way-a-person-w_175067.jpg) > [“In New York—the New York of her own time, at least—they would have been objects of scorn and anger, the butt of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/in-new-york-the-new-york-of-her-own-time-at-least-they-would-have/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46e/stephen-king-13_eddie_in-new-york-the-new-york-of-her-own-time_1959474.jpg) ## Other authors on Cruel ## More by Stephen King > [Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/shall-there-be-truth-between-us-as-two-men-not-as-friends-but-as/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-worst-advice-don-t-listen-to-the-critics-i-think-that-you-really/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/october-3-2017-the-clown-hagarty-said-looked-like-a-cross-between/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/eddie-saw-great-things-and-near-misses-albert-einstein-as-a-child-not/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/it-hurt-of-course-but-more-often-than-not-the-best-things-do-i-ve/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-idea-that-creative-endeavor-and-mind-altering-substances-are/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-sun-had-burned-through-and-the-day-had-gone-from-dull-to-dazzling/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/god-you-had-enough-time-to-have-been-through-it-three-times-you-ve/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/flakes-of-snow-swirled-and-danced-across-the-porch-the-overlook-faced/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/in-that-instant-it-all-seemed-to-come-clear-to-him-it-came-in-a/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/who-gets-to-be-best-liked-in-any-community-who-is-the-most-trusted/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/lo-ves-tonto-volvi-a-rega-arse-t-lo-inventaste-todo-gato-asustado-no/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/death-but-not-for-you-that-was-what-walter-clever-as-satan-even-at/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-ghost-story-movie-that-scared-me-the-most-was-the-changeling-with/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/climb-aboard-jonesy-i-m-going-to-send-you-up-where-the-air-is-rare/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cruel/stephen-king/#itemlist", "name": "9 Cruel Quotes By Stephen King", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“God is cruel,” David said in a voice almost too low to hear.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen King" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/god-is-cruel-david-said-in-a-voice-almost-too-low-to-hear/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/stephen-king-13_cruel_god-is-cruel-david-said-in-a-voice-almos_3176347.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/stephen-king-13_cruel_god-is-cruel-david-said-in-a-voice-almos_3176347.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/stephen-king-13_cruel_god-is-cruel-david-said-in-a-voice-almos_3176347.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“God is cruel,” David said in a voice almost too low to hear.” — Stephen King", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God is cruel. 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