Dean Koontz Quotes

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

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

We live in God's amusement park.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

No one can tell you what your heart should feel.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

It's only life. We all get through it.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

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.

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.