Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that… — 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
“There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“But on my worst days, which are rare and of which this is one, I can get down so low that the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined those dead, those living, those generations yet to come that the fate of… — 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
“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
