Dean Koontz Quotes

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?