“A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Taking refuge in the hopeless nature of anything was just a form of cowardice.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If my gift has a giver other than indifferent Nature and comes with a purpose, then the angel in charge of the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He loved her as he had never loved another, and he trusted her as he had allowed himself to trust no one… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She was plagued again by the feeling that the room in which she stood, the earth on which it was built, and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“As you have observed, it is the nature of human beings to exploit one another ruthlessly and to ravage nature as well,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The imagination can be a kind of wilderness, too, in fact a wasteland, if you allow it to take you into one… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Now, an hour later, Ethan stood at a window, gazing at the rain, like threads of seed pearls, accessorizing the hills of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A high degree of intelligence yes in no other creature in the natural world. That's why nature shuns us and why we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It was a terrible thing when death first entered the world, and even now when it's the way of nature, it's terrible… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“in time I came to see that of the many kinds of wilderness, the human heart can be the bleakest and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The true nature of the world is veiled, and if you shine a bright light on it, you can't expose that truth;… — 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
