That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It was a terrible thing when death first entered the world, and even now when it's the way of nature, it's terrible… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts… — 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
“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To the police," Lily said [speaking of five murders], "these five brutal murders are less than coincidence. One of them told me,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Too many of us die without knowing transcendent joy, in part because we pursue one form or another of materialism. We seek… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I celebrate death. Death makes room for new life. I die every day and rise again. Those weaker creatures who die and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Fearing death meant also fearing life, which stole all meaning from the act of living.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“she decided that this world was a place of deep mystery and enchantment, with occasional episodes of terror to give it texture.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Maybe if the death had occurred on the other side of the street, I’d be watching from here with different kids, acting… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Imminent death didn't terrify her as much as did the prospect of having lived a life in perpetual retreat, a life that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled… — 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
