"Pain can be endured and defeated only if……" — Dean Koontz

"Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows."

— Dean Koontz

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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
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…
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…
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men… — Chinua Achebe
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be… — Tony Blair
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the… — Tony Blair
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because… — Michael Bloomberg
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his… — Muhammad Ali
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. — Grover Cleveland
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou
Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated. — Carlos Castaneda
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated. — William Wordsworth

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