“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”

— Stephen King , book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the o…" by Stephen King?

Stephen King 733

American author 1947

Related quotes

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

“She's gonna listen to her heart.
It's gonna tell her what to do.
She might need a lot of loving,
But she don't need you.”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

Listen to Her Heart
Lyrics, You're Gonna Get It! (1978)

“If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Attributed

“A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Source: Life Is Worth Living

“After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I began to think about its double nature: on the one hand you have an organ in your body and on the other you have a symbol of love. From that time I started to pursue the image of a heart crossing the night from one body to another. It is a simple narrative structure but it’s open to a lot of things. I had the intuition that this book could give form to my intimate experience of death.”

Maylis de Kerangal (1967) French writer

On the heart as the focus for her book Mend the Living in “‘What is a heart? You have an organ in your body and you have a symbol of love’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/28/maylis-de-kerangal-interview-wellcome-prize-writing in The Guardian (2017 Apr 28)

“Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“And girl you're my one love, my one heart
My one life for sure
Let me tell you one time
(Girl, I love, girl I love you)
I'ma tell you one time”

Justin Bieber (1994) Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor

My World (2009 Album), One Time

“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Stephen King 733

Related quotes

Related topics