“We spend nine months in a nurturing darkness before we're born, and we aspire to the highest of all places when we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Once truth was known, it could not be unlearned, nor could it be forgotten, but lay always in the heart, a darkness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“THE OFFICE FELT SUMPTUOUS EVEN IN NEAR DARKNESS. It reminded me of certain photographs by Edward Steichen: velvet shadows deepening into moody… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“in time I came to see that of the many kinds of wilderness, the human heart can be the bleakest and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“in this dangerous time when shadows cast shadows of their own, when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust… — 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
We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Ozzie Boone...insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“One of the three candles burned out, and darkness eagerly pulled its chair a little closer to the table.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
