Dean Koontz Quotes: 22

• 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.

• I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

• 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.

  Fear Nothing

• Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

  The Darkest Evening of the Year

• She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

  Lightning

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

  Life Expectancy

• When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

  A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

• In this world only the paranoid survive.

  Midnight

• For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.

  Dead and Alive

• When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

  One Door Away from Heaven

• 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.

  Odd Thomas

• 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.

  The Darkest Evening of the Year

• 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.

  Odd Thomas

• Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

  Relentless

• 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.

• The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

  The Darkest Evening of the Year

• The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

• Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

  Winter Moon

• You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

  Odd Thomas

• Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

  Dead and Alive

• What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

  Velocity

• For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

  The Darkest Evening of the Year