Fear Quotes by Dean Koontz

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

— Dean Koontz

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

— Dean Koontz

To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

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“Roosevelt was right when he said that we have nothing to fear itself. And our fear can only consume us when we…

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Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

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“Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to…

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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our…

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

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The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of…

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I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants…

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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

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But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate…

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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well…

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I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are…

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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every…

— Dean Koontz

“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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“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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“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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“Fear is the engine that drives the human animal. Humanity sees the world as a place of uncountable threats, and so the…

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“The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill…

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“Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations. And because…

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She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and…

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“Fear is an unavoidable element of the mortal condition. Creation in all its ravishing beauty, with its infinite baroque embellishments and subtle…

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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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“Her beauty is not just—or even primarily—physical. In her face, I see her wisdom, her compassion, her courage, her eternal glory. This…

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Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

— Dean Koontz

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

— Dean Koontz

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

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“did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us…

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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

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Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

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“You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you.”

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Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread,…

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There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately…

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“The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our…

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Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the…

— Dean Koontz