“That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more... — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“ I’m in a dark place. I’m lost. The terrible big dark sky. I’m a danger to myself and others. Only you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald said that the real dark night of the soul was always three o’clock in the morning, and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
