Stephen King Quotes

Behind every citizen lies a graveyard.

When you dead, you dead.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

Cam: She is so lovely when she sleeps. Daniel: Is that why you wanted her to sleep for all eternity?

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

Death is the loss of everything all at once.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged?

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

Lying is before you and the grave is in front of you.

[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!