Top 500 Dean Koontz Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “We live in God’s amusement park.”

— Dean Koontz

152. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

153. “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

154. “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

155. “For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.”

— Dean Koontz

156. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

159. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— 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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

163. “Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

166. “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

167. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

168. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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.”

— Dean Koontz

172. “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

173. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

175. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

176. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

178. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

179. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

183. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

190. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

193. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

195. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

197. “I’m Odd but I’m not nuts.”

— Dean Koontz

198. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

199. “There will be something very wrong with any place we go.”

— Dean Koontz

200. “Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don’t think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren’t paying attention or you’ve anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don’t think life’s a comedy – well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh.”

— Dean Koontz