People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the… — 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
Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at… — 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
“there were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is...dangerous… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then.… — 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
“To understand the universe, our world, and all life in the world, you have to step out of time, which for living… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we’re dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Life was a racing river of many currents, yet all the undertows and raging rapids were not merely survivable but were also… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to… — 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
“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
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar… — 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
“Every human cell, with its thousands of protein chains, is more complex than a 747 or the largest cruise ship, in fact… — 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 all is… — 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
