“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Be of the world and in the world and above the world all at once. Be you and only you,” — 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
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 Copy Share Image
What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Anyway,” he said, “if somebody doesn’t belong in the world, there’s no door they can throw him out. They can’t take the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Among the nations of Earth in all its history, ours is one of the precious few that has not brought forth its… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small… — 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
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those… — 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
