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Life Quotes by Dean Koontz

189 Life quotes by Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz says life offers endless charms if we choose to notice them. He likens our days to a bootcamp that toughens us for a larger adventure beyond this world. He also compares life to a train ride, where friends disembark at stations and never return.

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“I love you more than life.”

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“Any life isn't just a story; it's thousands of them.”

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While life could be evaded, death could not.

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Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

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“he knew that fate was only a mythological concept”

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It's only life. We all get through it.

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“Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.”

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“spoons used to scoop the living eye from the skull.”

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“You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it”

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Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

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“In other words, life is hard, even cruel – but it’s also what you make of it.’ Putting”

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“Simplify, simplify. That was the secret to a happy life.”

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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

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The most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

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“The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do.”

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“That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.”

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My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where…

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“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's…

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“The why of the mind's existence and the how of its profound capacity to reason - especially its penchant for moral reasoning…

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“He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by…

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We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while…

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“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some…

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Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

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“In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.”

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The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter,…

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“I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification.…

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“If the universe was a cold mechanism, if life was a journey from one empty blackness to another, he could not rant…

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“He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the…

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Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own…

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“Self discipline and respect come naturally when you truly believe that your life has a spiritual dimension and that you are carefully…

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“wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see…

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Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These…

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It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way,…

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“When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you…

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“If anyone in your publishing life were to argue against a particular book or a career aspiration for reasons you had not…

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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,…

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“These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good,…

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“For those who dispair that their lives are without meaning and without purpose, for those who dwell in a lonelines so terrible…

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“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it…

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“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined those dead, those living, those generations yet to come that the fate of…

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“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish…

“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.…

“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.”

“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing…

“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free…

“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with…

“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.”

“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully…

“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…