Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary” Quotes (13 Quotes)

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.

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.

Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust...

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

DonÆt 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.

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.

May be sheÆll 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.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about which Louis had read in books, but which he had never experienced until now.

The soil of a manÆs heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.