Death Quotes by Dean Koontz

50 Death quotes by Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz calls death a terrible, wordless event that still feels necessary. He writes that hope is as vital as food when we stand between birth and death. He also points out that even dogs accept suffering with quiet bravery.

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“Death was driving an emerald-green Lexus.”

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“Live you can evade; death you cannot.”

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“death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike,”

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“a repetitive chant of destruction and death,”

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While life could be evaded, death could not.

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Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

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Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more…

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“To you of great faith, I am the product of your wisdom and the guarantor of your immortality.”

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“Fearing death meant also fearing life, which stole all meaning from the act of living.”

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“The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better…

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“Upon my death, when the stains on my soul are read by He who sits in judgment, I'll be given my own…

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“Death was everywhere, he was legion, and you couldn't escape his attention, but in some places he manifested in greater numbers than…

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“Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.”

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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

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“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave…

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Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting…

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn.…

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“It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing...Ernie and Pooka seek to understand…

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“I celebrate death. Death makes room for new life. I die every day and rise again. Those weaker creatures who die and…

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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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“she decided that this world was a place of deep mystery and enchantment, with occasional episodes of terror to give it texture.…

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In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion…

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That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame…

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Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even…

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The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to…

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“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at…

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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled…

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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite…

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“It was a terrible thing when death first entered the world, and even now when it's the way of nature, it's terrible…

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“Too many of us die without knowing transcendent joy, in part because we pursue one form or another of materialism. We seek…

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“Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death,…

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I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

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“How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a…

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“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.”

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Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of…

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Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

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“...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.”

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“In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure,…

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“There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of…

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

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“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.”

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