Well, sometimes dead is better.

— Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne)

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4 seconds sound clip from the Pet Sematary (1989) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:57:37 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- He was killed on his way home from the Second World War.

- His father, Bill Baterman, was grief-struck.

- He was so grief-struck, he buried his son up there before he ever had a chance to get to the bottom of the truth.

- I'll bite, Jud.

- What's the bottom of the truth?

- Well, sometimes dead is better.

- The person you put up there ain't the person that comes back. It may look like that person, but it ain't that person.

- 'Cause whatever lives in the ground beyond the Pet Sematary ain't human at all.

- It was four or five days after Timmy's funeral that Margie Washburn seen Timmy walking up the road towards Yorkie's Livery.

- As time went by, lots of folks saw Timmy walking back and forth.

[...]

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