Stephen King Quotes

The biggest fear that everybody has is dying. Not to get too meta on you, but I think every fear that people are trying to work out is really like I'm going to die and no one is going to care, and it doesn't matter because God might not exist. That's what people are trying to figure out. I wish we all had one fear so we could think about it together and figure out a solution, but we're all doing different things.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

I am a serial denier. I try not to be. I tell myself, 'You are going to die.' I repeat it. I grasp it for a second or two, but then it escapes me, and I'm back to before.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.