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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 3

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A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

Memorial, Redemption, May

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.61, Bantam

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

Reality, Causes, Misery

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Civilization, Fascination, Barbarians

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.101, Bantam

In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.

Daughter, Queens, Real

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

Depth, Belief, Embrace

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.462, Bantam

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

Responsibility, Darkness, Watches

FaceBook post by Dean Koontz from Jan 27, 2016

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

Worry, Doe, Accomplish

Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.346, Bantam

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

Faith, Taken, Intellectual

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.797, Bantam

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

Family, Heart, Adversity

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.

Lying, Eye, Simple

Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Humanity, Fool, Parades

Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.73, Bantam

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

War, Taken, Joy

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.1113, Bantam

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Life Is Short, People, Unhappy

Dean Koontz (1995). “The Key to Midnight”, p.216, Penguin

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

Dog, Evoke, Greatest Gifts

Dean Koontz (2011). “A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie”, p.170, Bantam

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

Darkness, Reign, Worst

Dean Koontz (2012). “Strange Highways”, p.174, Hachette UK

Reality isn't what it used to be.

Reality, Used, Used To Be

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.204, Bantam

less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

Real, Gun, Men

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.760, Bantam

I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love, and it is in these aspects of ourselves that we can glimpse the face of God; and through the exercise of these qualities, we come to a Godlike state.

Believe, Exercise, Quality

Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.

Responsibility, Pyramids, Giants

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.

Pain, Humility, Men

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

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

Running, Perseverance, Feet

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.211, Bantam

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Anger, Emotion, Violent

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.1250, Bantam

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

Believe, Mean, Want

Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.8, Bantam

Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it’s lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness—it’s still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.

Sweet, Forever, Promise

Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.213, Bantam

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

Faith, Expectations, Worry

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.1153, Bantam

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