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Quotes About Death

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.
~ Stephen King
There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
~ Stephen King
Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.
~ Stephen King
He killed them with their love
~ Stephen King
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
~ Stephen King
May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.
~ Stephen King
You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.
~ Stephen King
Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
~ Stephen King
Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.
~ Stephen King
Death was no less a miracle than birth.
~ Stephen King
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
~ Stephen King
Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead
~ Stephen King
everyone is dead and this is hell.
~ Stephen King
When I die, I guess I'll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other. Well, maybe there's worse ways.
~ Stephen King
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
~ Stephen King
Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.
~ Stephen King
I know I can do it, Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.
~ Stephen King
Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.
~ Stephen King
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
~ Stephen King
And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.
~ Stephen King
The world's just a hospice with fresh air.
~ Stephen King
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. — H. P. Lovecraft
~ Stephen King
This is nine! Nine! This is nine! Nine! This is ten! Ten! We have killed your friends! Every friend is now dead! This is six! Six! [...] Eighteen! This is now eighteen! Take cover when the siren sounds! This is four! Four! [...] Five! This is five! Ignore the siren! Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room! Eight! This is eight! [...] Six!' the phone screamed. ' Six, this is six, this is goddam fucking SIX!
~ Stephen King
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.
~ Stephen King