"Although the constant shadow of certain death looms……" — Dean Koontz
"Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment."
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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a…
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our…
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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More Affecting Quotes
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
— Kenneth Branagh
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
— Edmund Burke
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I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We just need the laws to change - it's 2012," JWoww said to MTV News. "I want to see my…
— JWoww
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It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in…
— John Wooden
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If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do…
— Garry McCarthy
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen…
— James Madison
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Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be…
— Mortimer Adler
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we…
— Melinda Gates
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