Modernism Quote by Stephen King

“He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots…

— Stephen King

“It is better to die with your boots on than to live as a bootlicker.”

— Amit Kalantri

“There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their…

— Mildred Armstrong Kalish

“Everyone should die with someone holding on to them”

— Cassandra Clare

“Do NOT die while wearing cheap shoes.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I didn't understand why I needed help, because it seemed to me that you should wear heavy boots when your dad dies, and if…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.”

— Shayne Colaco

“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”

— Shawn Davis

“You're Death,' I said. 'In saddle shoes.”

— Lish McBride

“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly…

— Chris Cleave

“My father's boots went ahead. His boots were to me as unique and familiar, as much an index to himself, as his face was.…

— Alice Munro

“When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began…

— James Baldwin