The most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.” — 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
People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Amalia insisted he wasn’t cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it” — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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 are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if… — 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
“THAT WE SHOULD MEET IN THE WHIRL OF LIFE THAT spins more people apart than together, that we should find in each… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life,… — 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
“as might a dung beetle stripped of its exoskeleton. Having set out to change the world and rule it through mass murder… — 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… — 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
Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In other words, life is hard, even cruel – but it’s also what you make of it.’ Putting” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He is so new to this life and his abilities that he still amazes himself.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.” — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
