"In spite of where we were, how we……" — Dean Koontz
"In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance."
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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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