Top 100 Koontz Quotes
#1. James Patterson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, so far these are the best horror writers, but I will continue searching for other interesting horror and twisted writers even like James Wan.
Deyth Banger
#2. My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.
Michael Easton
#3. He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way." - Odd Thomas - "Odd Hours by Dean Koontz pg 239 chapter 30
Dean Koontz
#4. Dean Koontz always find way out of the horror and when it's about silence he should be the first image.
Deyth Banger
#5. Life is too short for Dean Koontz. I am never going to read a shitty book again.
Alex
#6. Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
Gayle Lynds
#7. Dean Koontz is good in the silence makes silence... then he just attacks!
- WOW
Deyth Banger
#8. Is it the problem in my conclusion or is it in you... it's difficult to say I can say for sure Dean Koontz audiobooks I have them on few clicks away... but I can't say anything about your character... it's very soft... lazy and not serious.... you want a lit of with process 0%.
Deyth Banger
#9. I didn't have a cell phone because I never needed to play video games or surf the Net, or exchange nude photos with a congressman. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 137 chapter 19
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#10. People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams - "Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59
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#11. Even with the intention to be quiet, human beings seldom can restrain from comment or at least grumbled cursing; we are the chattering species, as much as we are anything else - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 56 chapter 7
Dean Koontz
#12. I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.
James Dashner
#13. In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the first place - but they're writing a Dean Koontz novel or something.
Leni Zumas
#14. The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.
Dean Koontz
#15. The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time.
Dean Koontz
#17. We are destined to be together forever. We have a card that says so. Gypsy Mummy is never wrong.
Dean Koontz
#18. I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine.
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#19. Surrender to fear is an invitation to doubt.
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#20. The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that the devil is near, but I've noticed I also experience it when someone serves me Brussels sprouts.
Dean Koontz
#21. Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.
Dean Koontz
#22. He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.
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#23. Sudden falls can come to societies that know too little history or that have furnished their minds with easy one-note propaganda in place of the true complexity and terrible beauty of the storied past.
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#24. An elaborately jointed array of bones landed in my lap, spasming like a broken crab. My cry was every bit as manly as that of a young schoolgirl surprised by a hairy spider. I knocked the thing off me, onto the floor. It
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#25. No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.
Dean Koontz
#26. Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.
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#27. The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet.
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#28. Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.
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#29. He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was seeking something from the dog that it could not provide: meaning, purpose, relief from despair.
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#30. I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised.
Dean Koontz
#31. I guess with artificial intelligence, just like with natural intelligence, there can be a way-creepy side.
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#32. Lies such as love, guilt, hate, courage, loyalty, and honor.
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#33. Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet ...
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#34. So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe - all its matter and forms of energy - arise out of thought.
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#35. Was not merely weak but also evil to throw away your life when so many had their lives or the promise of their future taken from them by cruel people or by the brutal forces of nature.
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#36. I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.'
We don't have pigeons.'
Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.
Dean Koontz
#37. Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
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#38. Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.
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#39. When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world
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#40. The truth was in her voice as sure as rain and sunshine are in a green blade of grass.
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#41. I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.
Dean Koontz
#42. But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.
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#43. My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
Dean Koontz
#44. 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
#45. Fear is the engine that drives the human animal. Humanity sees the world as a place of uncountable threats, and so the world becomes what humanity imagines it to be. They not only live in fear but use fear to control one another. Fearmongering is their true religion.
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#46. 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.
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#47. Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic ...
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#48. A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
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#49. Any life isn't just a story; it's thousands of them.
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#50. He can't always watch us directly, ... with his fullest attention every minute, but He's always at least watching from the corner of his eye.
Dean Koontz
#51. Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage
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#52. The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.
Dean Koontz
#53. He held the sandwich in his right hand, a cigarette in his left, alternating between the two. When witness to this, I always hoped that in error he would take a bite of the cigarette or attempt to smoke the sandwich, but he never became confused.
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#54. 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.
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#55. The sky, an inverted blue ceramic cauldron, poured out a hot dry brew.
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#56. Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy.
Dean Koontz
#57. How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.
Dean Koontz
#58. Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing the pain without extracting the thorn that caused the agony.
Dean Koontz
#59. He drops the pistol into the right-hand pocket of his raincoat. He is not expecting trouble. Nevertheless, he goes nowhere unarmed. One can never be too careful. Besides, opportunities often arise unexpectedly. In
Dean Koontz
#60. In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
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#61. I had no idea where he went when he was not with me. Perhaps he enjoyed exploring new places as much as did any living dog, and went off to wander previously unvisited neighborhoods of Magic Beach.
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#63. A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws.
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#64. Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life
and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
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#65. My guess was that when you descended to a certain depth of depravity, the Fogs could smell you as a hound, catching a murderer's spoor, could track the criminal through forest, field, and moor.
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#66. I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.
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#67. Amalia insisted he wasn't cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated.
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#68. My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.
Dean Koontz
#69. When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.
Dean Koontz
#70. I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow.
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#71. And your three-year-old Ford Explorer," Terezin said, "bought without your parents' money, a proud statement of your independence - of course it has a GPS.
Dean Koontz
#72. Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.
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#74. One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you'll live forever.
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#75. The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
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#77. I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.
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#78. There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see - or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.
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#79. The war had left his body pathetically damaged and weak, but his mind was as strong and clear as it had ever been, perhaps even tempered and made stronger by adversity. That, not madness, was his curse.
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#80. We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
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#81. Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other - and to me.
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#82. He most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.
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#83. Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark.
Dean Koontz
#84. 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.
Dean Koontz
#85. Anyway, to maintain the right perspective, sweetie, we always should be at risk of failure, the possibility of making wrong choices.
Dean Koontz
#86. A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good.
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#87. Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it to immoral ends.
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#88. There's such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But such admonishments did no good. He was still as blocked as a pipe full of concrete.
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#89. I reminded myself that the heart is deceitful above all things - Addison Goodheart pg. 88
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#90. For the first time in three years, Travis Cornell felt needed, felt a deep connection with another living creature. For the first time in three years, he had a reason to live. He
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#91. Rational optimism is required of anyone who hopes to be a survivor,
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#92. You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
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#93. 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
#94. And though the blood of Abel had once cried out from the Earth, we had come now to a time when so much blood had been spilled over the millennia that the throat of the Earth was clotted and choked, and fresh blood could not raise a voice from it.
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#95. What we had both done was keep on keeping on, which is all any of us can do.
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#96. The normality of the house terrified her: the gleaming surfaces, the tidiness, the homey touches, the sense that a person lived here who might walk in daylight on any street and pass for human in spite of the atrocities that he had committed.
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#97. 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.
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#99. Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved ...
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#100. Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity ...
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