Dean Koontz quotes - page 9

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantageand seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. (Dean Koontz)
More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope. View quote
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Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro. View quote
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Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along. View quote
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life. View quote
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One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others. View quote
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You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same. View quote
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We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. View quote
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Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic. View quote
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the worst happens when you least expect it. View quote
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy. (Dean Koontz)
A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse. View quote
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When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable. View quote
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Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved. View quote
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Listen, child-if you're at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he'll be the last one you'd suspect. View quote
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Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies. View quote
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Your past is my Future. View quote
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Live you can evade; death you cannot. View quote
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Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive. View quote
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Maybe Nina wouldn't have died if I hadn't moved in with them and drawn Sheener after me, but I can't feel guilty about that. I tried hard to be a good foster daughter to them, and they were happy with me. What happened was that life dropped a big custard pie on us, and that's not my fault; you can never see the custard pies coming. It's not good slapstick if you see the pie coming." "Custard pie?" he asked, perplexed. "You see life as a slapstick comedy? Like the Three Stooges?" "Partly." "Life is just a joke then?" "No. Life is serious and a joke at the same time." "But how can that be? View quote
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past. (Dean Koontz)
I thought of you as my guardian, Einstein... you taught me that I'm your guardian, too, that I'm Travis's guardian, and he is my guardian and yours. We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull. View quote
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What will you find behind the door that is one door away from Heaven? View quote
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Sometimes," I said, "it seems to me that a friend might not take such pleasure in making fun of me as you do." "Dear Odd! If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness. View quote
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