--- title: "14 Gone Quotes By Stephen King" description: "14 Gone quotes by Stephen King. Plus more from Stephen King and more Gone sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1d/stephen-king-13_flame_gone-like-a-candle-flame-to-whatever-wor_67098.jpg" --- > [“Gone. Like a candle-flame. To whatever worlds there are.” He”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/gone-like-a-candle-flame-to-whatever-worlds-there-are-he/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1d/stephen-king-13_flame_gone-like-a-candle-flame-to-whatever-wor_67098.jpg) > [When the time is gone, you can never get it back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/when-the-time-is-gone-you-can-never-get-it-back/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcf/stephen-king-13_gone_when-the-time-is-gone-you-can-never-get_1182837.jpg) > [If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/if-you-think-you-ve-gone-insane-you-re-nuts/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/stephen-king-13_gone_if-you-think-you-ve-gone-insane-you-re-n_1075764.jpg) > [“She had brought graze to his life. It wasn't a word that had occurred to him until she was gone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/she-had-brought-graze-to-his-life-it-wasn-t-a-word-that-had-occurred/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab6/stephen-king-13_life_she-had-brought-graze-to-his-life-it-was_1127596.jpg) > [I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-write-in-the-mornings-in-the-bright-daylight-but-i-get-most-of-my/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c45/stephen-king-13_dark_i-write-in-the-mornings-in-the-bright-da_2034261.jpg) > [I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-changed-it-i-had-to-do-you-know-why-she-studied-him-her-eyes-grave/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33e/stephen-king-13_changed_i-changed-it-i-had-to-do-you-know-why-sh_30560.jpg) > [The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-person-healed-has-an-obligation-to-then-ask-why-to-meditate-on/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/848/stephen-king-13_extraordinary_the-person-healed-has-an-obligation-to-t_500831.jpg) > [But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/but-now-the-joy-is-gone-and-the-sadness-is-back-the-sadness-feels/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a5/stephen-king-13_betrayal_but-now-the-joy-is-gone-and-the-sadness_789615.jpg) > [a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/a-cloud-congested-caul-that-is-alternately-red-orange-vermilion/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/876/stephen-king-13_beam_a-cloud-congested-caul-that-is-alternate_1796772.jpg) > [That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/that-was-what-i-wanted-but-i-don-t-need-it-to-be-gone-i-can-love-you/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7b/stephen-king-13_bears_that-was-what-i-wanted-but-i-don-t-need_1277044.jpg) > [I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-believe-in-evil-but-all-my-life-i-ve-gone-back-and-forth-about/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/stephen-king-13_back-and-forth_i-believe-in-evil-but-all-my-life-i-ve-g_2064322.jpg) > [Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/part-of-my-function-as-a-writer-is-to-dream-awake-and-that-usually/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/994/stephen-king-13_able_part-of-my-function-as-a-writer-is-to-dr_2106233.jpg) > [“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/a-marriage-was-like-a-house-under-constant-construction-each-year/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/stephen-king-13_abandoned_a-marriage-was-like-a-house-under-consta_2093639.jpg) > [What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/what-do-you-really-want-to-know-am-i-sorry-for-what-i-did-there-s-not/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f67/stephen-king-13_committed_what-do-you-really-want-to-know-am-i-sor_520678.jpg) ## Other authors on Gone ## More by Stephen King > [Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/shall-there-be-truth-between-us-as-two-men-not-as-friends-but-as/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-worst-advice-don-t-listen-to-the-critics-i-think-that-you-really/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/october-3-2017-the-clown-hagarty-said-looked-like-a-cross-between/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/eddie-saw-great-things-and-near-misses-albert-einstein-as-a-child-not/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/it-hurt-of-course-but-more-often-than-not-the-best-things-do-i-ve/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-idea-that-creative-endeavor-and-mind-altering-substances-are/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-sun-had-burned-through-and-the-day-had-gone-from-dull-to-dazzling/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/god-you-had-enough-time-to-have-been-through-it-three-times-you-ve/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/flakes-of-snow-swirled-and-danced-across-the-porch-the-overlook-faced/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/in-that-instant-it-all-seemed-to-come-clear-to-him-it-came-in-a/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/who-gets-to-be-best-liked-in-any-community-who-is-the-most-trusted/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/lo-ves-tonto-volvi-a-rega-arse-t-lo-inventaste-todo-gato-asustado-no/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/death-but-not-for-you-that-was-what-walter-clever-as-satan-even-at/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-ghost-story-movie-that-scared-me-the-most-was-the-changeling-with/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) > [“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/climb-aboard-jonesy-i-m-going-to-send-you-up-where-the-air-is-rare/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gone/stephen-king/#itemlist", "name": "14 Gone Quotes By Stephen King", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Gone. Like a candle-flame. 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