Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“War was waged to make peace. Abuse was love. Welcome to the funhouse, where strange mirrors reflect the faces of hell.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Although there was much I wanted to say, I knew that I should not. His mind and heart were out of alignment,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Variety is not the spice of life. It is the mother of disorder. Individuality is not the hallmark of freedom. It is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even… — 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
“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
