Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 5

Quotes about:

• Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Book, Evil

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Rising, Moments, Drifting

  7 Copy quote

• I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

  Dean Koontz

  Kings, Book, Reading

  7 Copy quote

• We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

  Dean Koontz

  Trying, Stranger

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.272, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

• The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

  Dean Koontz

  Night, Snow, Silence

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.57, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

• There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Night, Devil

  14 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Friendship, Real Friends, World

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.234, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

• All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Fate, Hands

  Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.561, Bantam

  14 Copy quote

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

  Dean Koontz

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

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

  Dean Koontz

  Compassion, Empathy, Friendship Love

  84 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Powerful, Powder, Spells

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.58, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

• He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

  Dean Koontz

  Ordinary, Enchanted, Said

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Light, Giving, Darkness

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.680, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

• Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Mind, Needs

  7 Copy quote

• Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

  Dean Koontz

  Anxiety, Ears, Circus

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.104, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

• Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

  Dean Koontz

  Hurt, Fun, Lying

  7 Copy quote

• Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.

  Dean Koontz

  Spirit, Mercy, Creation

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Sole Survivor: A Novel”, p.402, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

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

  Dean Koontz

  Waiting, Born

  20 Copy quote

• Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

  Dean Koontz

  Stars, Children, Twilight

  Dean Koontz (2004). “Midnight”, p.15, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

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

  Dean Koontz

  Soul, Mind, Poison

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.134, Bantam

  9 Copy quote

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

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Loss, Giving

  12 Copy quote

• Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Song, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2004). “The Bad Place”, p.11, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Purpose, Mysterious, Conflict

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1434, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

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

  Dean Koontz

  Liars, Lying, Deception

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.252, Bantam

  16 Copy quote

• Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

  Dean Koontz

  Journey, People, Car

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.240, Bantam

  9 Copy quote

Page 5 of 21

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin