Dean Koontz Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

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

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Defeated, Grows

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.321, Bantam

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Rip, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.244, Bantam

• Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Want, Knows

  Dean Koontz (2012). “The Frankenstein Series 5-Book Bundle: Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, City of Night, Dead and Alive, Lost Souls, The Dead Town”, p.213, Bantam

• Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Reality, Justice

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.321, Bantam

• Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Mind, Body

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.376, Bantam

• Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Pain, Writing

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

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Writing, Psychics

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.134, Bantam

• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Humanity, Pity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

• The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Giving, Humanity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Humility, Men

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.331, Bantam

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