Dean Koontz Quotes

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

~ Dean Koontz

Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Dean Koontz

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

~ Dean Koontz

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

~ Dean Koontz

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

~ Dean Koontz

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

~ Dean Koontz

Hand-to-hand combat with three hundred pounds of screaming monkey menace is not my idea of a fair fight. My idea of a fair fight is one unarmed, toothless, nearsighted old monkey versus me with a Blackhawk attack helicopter.

~ Dean Koontz

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

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

~ Dean Koontz

Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.

~ Dean Koontz

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

~ Dean Koontz

There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.

~ Dean Koontz

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

~ Dean Koontz

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness.We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.

~ Dean Koontz

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

~ Dean Koontz

Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

~ Dean Koontz

...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

~ Dean Koontz

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

~ Dean Koontz

Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.

~ Dean Koontz

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

~ Dean Koontz

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.

~ Dean Koontz

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

~ Dean Koontz

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

~ Dean Koontz

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.

~ Dean Koontz

These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another. This is a big request to make of busy Fate, who has billions of lives to keep in constant turmoil.

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Dean Koontz

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Dean Koontz

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

~ Dean Koontz

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

~ Dean Koontz

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

~ Dean Koontz

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

~ Dean Koontz

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, make sit impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.

~ Dean Koontz

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

~ Dean Koontz

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

~ Dean Koontz

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

~ Dean Koontz

Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of truth...the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

~ Dean Koontz

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

~ Dean Koontz

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.

~ Dean Koontz