Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they… — 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
Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Winny had learned from books... you had to be tested in life to discover who you were and what you were capable… — 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
“Imminent death didn't terrify her as much as did the prospect of having lived a life in perpetual retreat, a life that… — 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
“Always questioning your motivations is a healthy thing, but fearing your capacity for doing the wrong thing so that you retreat from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She loved people, she said, especially those in books, which was largely how she knew them, but she declined to associate with… — 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
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
we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't… — 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
“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
“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
