“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“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, quote from Pet Sematary
“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, quote from Pet Sematary
“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own... always comes home to you.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“A man who lies about beer makes enemies”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls-as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... ”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“I’m going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“Resurrection... ah, there's a word
(that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it).”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“Christ.
No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People
have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel’s sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think:
Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches,
God of the Mystery.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“Sometimes, dead is bettah" - Jud Crandall, Pet Sematary”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
“Oh, about beer I never lie," Crandall said. "A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”
― Stephen King, quote from Pet Sematary
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“Miracles share the landscape with death.”
― Don DeLillo, quote from The Names
“We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy
“Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.”
― Aleister Crowley, quote from The Book of Lies
“I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the way. It hovers over me at odd moments. And then it's gone. I feel like I'm always on the brink of something that never arrives. I want to either have it or be free of it.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Specimen Days
“But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of what a perfect relationship would look like. Love, in her imagination, was so dazzling, so tender and unconditional, that anything human seemed impossibly thin by comparison. Lucy's loneliness was breathtaking in its enormity...she was trapped in a room full of mirrors, and every direction she looked in she saw herself, her face, her loneliness. She couldn't see that no one else was perfect either, and that so much of love was the work of it. She had worked on everything else. Love would have to be charmed.”
― Ann Patchett, quote from Truth and Beauty
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