Dean Koontz quotes - page 2

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing. (Dean Koontz)
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless. View quote
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From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity. View quote
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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be. View quote
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Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. View quote
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it! View quote
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Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman. View quote
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There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail? View quote
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity. View quote
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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive. View quote
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. (Dean Koontz)
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. View quote
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In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable. View quote
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Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. View quote
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Alliteration seems to offend people. View quote
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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. View quote
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... mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God. View quote
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In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart. View quote
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It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love. View quote
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Fate isn't one straight road...there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path. View quote
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In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to. Most people are good-hearted and willing to give a man the benefit of the doubt, but the poisonous few are eager to see others brought down, ruined. ... Envy, Bob. Envy eats them alive. If you had money, they'd envy you that. But since you don't, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others. (Dean Koontz)
Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard. View quote
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Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore. View quote
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...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room. View quote
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Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway. View quote
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