I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...wonder admits to the existence of mystery...recognition of mystery allows the possibility of Truth.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“We are what we are, he thought, and maybe the only time we can change what we are is when life throws… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“(I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I’d probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn’t simplify my… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
On the road that I taken, one day, walking, I awaken, amazed to see where I have come. Where I'm going, where… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be. People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with wonder and surprise; sometimes the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Stormy called this life boot camp. She said we have to persevere through all this world's obstacles and all the wounds that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“For those who dispair that their lives are without meaning and without purpose, for those who dwell in a lonelines so terrible… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If anyone in your publishing life were to argue against a particular book or a career aspiration for reasons you had not… — 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
“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way,… — 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
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. — 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
