# Quote — Stephen King, The Gunslinger

> Perhaps you saw what place our universe plays in the scheme of things—as no more than an atom in a blade of grass. Could it be that everything we can perceive, from the microscopic virus to the distant Horsehead Nebula, is contained in one blade of grass that may have existed for only a single season in an alien time-flow? What if that blade should be cut off by a scythe? When it begins to die, would the rot seep into our universe and our own lives, turning everything yellow and brown and desiccated? Perhaps it's already begun to happen. We say the world has moved on; maybe we really mean that it has begun to dry up."Think how small such a concept of things make us, gunslinger! If a God watches over it all, does He actually mete out justice for such a race of gnats? Does His eye see the sparrow fall when the sparrow is less than a speck of hydrogen floating disconnected in the depth of space? And if He does see... what must the nature of such a God be? Where does He live? How is it possible to live beyond infinity?

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [The Gunslinger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-gunslinger.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._I:_The_Gunslinger) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-gunslinger/perhaps-you-saw

## More from this book

> The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

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> Shaken and alone, enwrapt in the darkness, terrified of an ultimate meaning rushing at him, he gathered himself and uttered the final answer on that subject: “NEVER!”“THEN LET THERE BE LIGHT!” And there was light, crashing in on him like a hammer, a great and primordial light.

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> Go then, there are other worlds than these.

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