Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Regardless of how rough we may appear on the exterior, each of us had a human heart.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Like me, you are human, after all, and we know what a joy and terror that is.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A cynic once said that the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — 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
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've… — 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
Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These cold questions echo and resound through each day, each lonely night. We long to find the splendid light that will cast a revelatory beam upon the meaning of the human dream. Courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy lift… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Fear is the engine that drives the human animal. Humanity sees the world as a place of uncountable threats, and so the… — 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
“On an individual level, the human condition changed day by day, even hour by hour, and while you were soaking in self-pity over a misfortune, you might miss an opportunity for a redeeming triumph. And for every act of inhumanity, the species managed to committ a hundred acts of kindness; so if you were the type to brood, you would… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“in time I came to see that of the many kinds of wilderness, the human heart can be the bleakest and the most hostile. Many hearts contain great beauty and the smallest measure of darkness. In many other hearts, beauty brightens only remote corners where otherwise darkness rules. There are those in whom no darkness lies, though they are few.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“Damn it, there is no world if there is not a human eye to see it, no world of any purpose or… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. — 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
“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 was as strong as the other: love and imagination. OF the three, God and love were always good. Imagination, however, could be good or bad. Mozart imagined great music into existence. Hitler imagined death camps and… — 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 a wicked pervert who would cut off my peepee with a pair of scissors...if I didn't stop chattering about him, he would be certain to put me on his list and look me up. Christmas 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 to see them. - Addison Goodheart pg. 119” — 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 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
