Top 500 Dean Koontz Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.”

— Dean Koontz

152. “Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.”

— Dean Koontz

153. “Home is the first refuge from – and last defense against – the disappointments and the terrors of life.”

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154. “Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance.”

— Dean Koontz

155. “Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.”

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156. “Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.”

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157. “We live in God’s amusement park.”

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158. “I’ve not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.”

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159. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

160. “A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.”

— Dean Koontz

161. “We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self interest.”

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162. “Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.”

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163. “The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.”

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164. “The broom wasn’t as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.”

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165. “Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.”

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166. “Don’t tell me what’s necessary, you presumptupus pup. What’s necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.”

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167. “In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.”

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168. “What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.”

— Dean Koontz

169. “We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.”

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170. “In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.”

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171. “Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time – affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.”

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172. “And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.”

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173. “We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.”

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174. “Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.”

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175. “Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.”

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176. “If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don’t get stale or bored.”

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177. “Life is hard in a world gone wrong.”

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178. “We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.”

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179. “Beyond the slumpstone wall lay a backyard, a swimming pool. Dappled with morning light and tree shadows, the water glimmered in shades of blue from sapphire to turquoise, as might a trove of jewels left by long-dead pirates who had sailed a sea since vanished.”

— Dean Koontz

180. “The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn’t let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.”

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181. “Haven’t you noticed, insanity is the new normal?”

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182. “I’ve always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it’s like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.”

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183. “The life of a seamstress is no smaller than the life of a queen, the life of a child with Down syndrome no less filled with promise than the life of a philosopher, because the only significant measure of your life is the positive effect you have on others, either by conscious acts of will or by unconscious example.”

— Dean Koontz

184. “There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”

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185. “Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.”

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186. “That’s all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.”

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187. “People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.”

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188. “Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.”

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189. “Surrender to fear is an invitation to doubt.”

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190. “I don’t write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.”

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191. “If you’re still, and if you don’t hope too much, peace will come to you. It’s a grace.”

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192. “You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it.”

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193. “No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run.”

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194. “When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I’ve always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.”

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195. “I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.”

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196. “Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.”

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197. “If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”

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198. “Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me.”

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199. “Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.”

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200. “I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.”

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