Dean Koontz Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Moving, Past

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.722, Bantam

• I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Believe, Past

• Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Real, Ambition

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.388, Bantam

• We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

  Dean Koontz

  Past, Second Chance, Yesterday

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.18, Bantam

• Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Real, Ambition

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

• For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

  Dean Koontz

  Dark, Past, Yesterday

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.10, Bantam

• Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?

  Dean Koontz

  Couple, Past, Years

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

• I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Past, Years

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