Dean Koontz Quotes

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and rega...

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

Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just...

Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have f...

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the mil...

The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth th...

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtsh...

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control a...

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was sol...

People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to...

In his mind he saw them standing with the tips of their organs pressed together ejaculating into eac...

Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the moder...

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it ...

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but again...

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.Women were more likely than men to think that their lives h...

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because...

Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're go...

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kep...

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a ...

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between her...

I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd n...

If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely fo...

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they ...

Now take my hand and hold it tight.I will not fail you here tonight,For failing you, I fail myselfAn...

The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...

On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because...

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the ...

...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--a...

Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is fa...

He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that...

Hand-to-hand combat with three hundred pounds of screaming monkey menace is not my idea of a fair fi...

He's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is...

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to...

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all ...

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines ...

When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty. I would miss the complex and...

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "S...

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there wer...

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition...

...and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high ...

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a re...

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real thr...

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've alw...

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wo...

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking...

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much ...

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the ...

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a refle...

There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in ve...

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what y...

When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because mis...

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this wo...

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to k...

Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you c...

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil ...

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same s...

Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to b...

Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is ...

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability...

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

The less I have, the less I can lose.

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, ...

Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak...

She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as b...

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

We ate food that wasn't healthy. We let dirty dishes stack up in the sink. We slept too much.We talk...

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability...

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly di...

Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn'...

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind al...

Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have...

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wound...

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes ...

Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a univers...

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your...

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to a...

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it appl...

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential thi...

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable ad...

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I h...

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we ta...

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one...