Quote by Stephen King

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are t

Summary

This quote suggests that within the stone halls where the deceased reside, all the troubles and memories of the living are forgotten. It portrays these halls as a place of decay and abandonment, where the silence is eventually overwhelming as all things seem to lose their vitality and purpose. The image of spiders spinning their webs implies the gradual decay and eventual entrapment of everything. Overall, it highlights the transience of life and the ultimate insignificance of worldly concerns in the grand scheme of death and oblivion.

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