Death Quote by Stephen King — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”

“He was a coward at heart, and a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else.”

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”

“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers, and it was his laughter she took with her as she went out, fleeing the light and heat in to the silkly, consoling dark, calling to him over and over as she went, calling bird and bear and hare and fish.”

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”

“What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead.”

“Tell me what it is like to die," I answered.”

“How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.”

“Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.”

“If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.”