Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The sea delivered the message that life was nothing more than meaningless mechanics and cold tidal forces, a bleak message of hopelessness… — 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
“Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“reality is perception perception change…reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no… — dean koontz Copy Share Image
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy,… — 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
It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say… — 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
“Daily I walk a high wire, always in danger of losing my balance. The essence of my life is supernatural, which I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If she could seldom bring herself to touch me and even more seldom look at me directly, she nonetheless made a place… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Minute by minute, life was a continuous rolling of the dice, and that was as much gambling as she could handle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more… — 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
“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret.” — 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
“The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The why of the mind's existence and the how of its profound capacity to reason - especially its penchant for moral reasoning… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by. — 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… — 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
“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
