Dean Koontz Quotes

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• I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.
• Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
• Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.
• The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
• We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
• Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
• How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a…
• No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
• The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
• Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we…
• We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
• Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
• The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty…
• Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique,…
• When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and…
• Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us…
• As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in…
• Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.
• The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on…
• When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within,…

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