Odd Thomas Quotes

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

~ Dean Koontz

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

~ Dean Koontz

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

~ Dean Koontz

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

~ Dean Koontz

In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

~ 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.

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Dean Koontz

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.

~ Dean Koontz

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

~ Dean Koontz

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

~ Dean Koontz

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.

~ Dean Koontz

Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething.

~ Dean Koontz

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

~ Dean Koontz

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

~ Dean Koontz

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

~ Dean Koontz

A broken thing can't fix itself.

~ Dean Koontz

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

~ Dean Koontz

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

~ Dean Koontz

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

~ Dean Koontz

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

~ Dean Koontz

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...

~ Dean Koontz

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

~ Dean Koontz

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

~ Dean Koontz

Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is on adults. They are physically weaker than adults, financially dependent, and in times of danger, nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability.

~ Dean Koontz

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

~ Dean Koontz

Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.

~ Dean Koontz

All death matters.Only to the living.

~ Dean Koontz

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

~ Dean Koontz

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

~ Dean Koontz

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

~ Dean Koontz

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

~ Dean Koontz

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.

~ Dean Koontz

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.

~ Dean Koontz

The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need.

~ Dean Koontz

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

~ Dean Koontz

Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result of random forces colliding. Yet each time that they are given but one reason to doubt, a worm in the apple of the heart makes them turn away from a thousand proofs of the miraculous, whereupon they have a drunkard's thirst for cynicism, and they feed upon despair as a starving man upon a loaf of bread.

~ Dean Koontz

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

~ Dean Koontz

From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be.

~ Dean Koontz

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

~ Dean Koontz