# Quote — Stephen King, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

> We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back.

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-vi-song-of-susannah.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._VI:_Song_of_Susannah) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-vi-song-of-susannah/we-spread-the
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## More from this book

> I refuse to believe that I was raised in Brooklyn simply because of some writer's mistake, something that will eventually be fixed in the second draft.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-vi-song-of-susannah/i-refuse-to-believe.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> Anger is the most useless emotion; destructive to the mind and hurtful of the heart.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-vi-song-of-susannah/anger-is-the.md)

Topics: [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md)

> You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-dark-tower-vi-song-of-susannah/you-doom-yourselves.md)

Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md)