Dean Koontz Quotes

Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside the precincts of the damned, except in the fevered fantasies of a raving paranoid psychopath

~ Dean Koontz

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom.

~ Dean Koontz

Hope lies in action

~ Dean Koontz

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

~ Dean Koontz

We ate food that wasn't healthy. We let dirty dishes stack up in the sink. We slept too much.We talked about everything, everything but the slaughter at the mall. Our past, our future. We planned. We dreamed.

~ Dean Koontz

Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchorA ship without an anchor can never be at rest

~ Dean Koontz

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

~ Dean Koontz

When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard myself say, I don't hate you.She called me an effing liar and said, Hate makes the world go around. Envy, lust and hate.I stopped hating anyone the day when I realized hating can't restore to me anything that's lost.

~ Dean Koontz

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

~ Dean Koontz

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on sighs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

~ Dean Koontz

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

~ Dean Koontz

The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people’s litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction.

~ Dean Koontz

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

~ Dean Koontz

But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a bobsled ride, I didn't have time to put on a victim suit and tell the woeful tale of my sorrowful childhood. Neither time nor the inclination

~ Dean Koontz

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

~ Dean Koontz

He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves,our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

~ Dean Koontz

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

~ Dean Koontz

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

~ Dean Koontz

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

~ Dean Koontz

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

~ Dean Koontz

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

~ Dean Koontz

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

~ Dean Koontz

...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

~ Dean Koontz

Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, but the storm occluded the sky, denying us the stars. At the moment, I needed to see a firmament of stars, needed to gaze past the moon and through the constellations, needed to see what can't be seen--infinity.

~ Dean Koontz

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

~ Dean Koontz

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

~ Dean Koontz

Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.

~ Dean Koontz

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you.I said, She never has.

~ Dean Koontz

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

~ Dean Koontz

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

~ Dean Koontz

There will be something very wrong with any place we go.

~ Dean Koontz

It's only life. We all get through it.Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Dean Koontz

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.

~ Dean Koontz

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

~ Dean Koontz

If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species.

~ Dean Koontz

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

~ Dean Koontz

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

~ Dean Koontz

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

~ Dean Koontz

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

~ Dean Koontz