Mind Quotes by Dean Koontz

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

— Dean Koontz

“Rupert Clockenwall seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt.”

— Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

— Dean Koontz

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

— Dean Koontz

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

“Amalia insisted he wasn’t cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.”

— Dean Koontz

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

— Dean Koontz

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

— Dean Koontz

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known…

— Dean Koontz

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn…

— Dean Koontz

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

“Death was everywhere, he was legion, and you couldn't escape his attention, but in some places he manifested in greater numbers than…

— Dean Koontz

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can…

— Dean Koontz

“He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by…

— Dean Koontz

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the…

— Dean Koontz

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good…

— Dean Koontz

“He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold…

— Dean Koontz

He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or…

— Dean Koontz

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us.…

— Dean Koontz

If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of…

— Dean Koontz

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope…

— Dean Koontz

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

— Dean Koontz

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

— Dean Koontz

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

— Dean Koontz

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

— Dean Koontz

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

— Dean Koontz

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that…

— Dean Koontz

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give…

— Dean Koontz

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

— Dean Koontz

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame…

— Dean Koontz

Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else…

— Dean Koontz