Quotes by Dean Koontz

“His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.”

“Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.”

“She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our h...”

“This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose”

“Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.”

“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining ...”

“Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.”

“How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.”

“My parents didn't raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength to do the right thing, yes. Not for a winning lottery number, not for love or health, or happine...”

“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, y...”

“Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is rele...”

“Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying gla...”

“He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.”

“He's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese.”

“To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.”

“The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. L...”

“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 rath...”

“Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.”

“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as welland more, because their stories havent yet been completely told.”

“All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nat...”