“Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast,” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?” — 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
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. — 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
“Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He’ll also cut you some slack if you’re astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally… — 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… — 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
“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
All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told… — 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
“The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“There's always a parade, Howie. When it's something you can't ever join but only watch, then it's a parade” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's… — 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
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
“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
