Top 500 Dean Koontz Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “I know it’s hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we’re talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It’s an absolute fundamental.”

— Dean Koontz

202. “Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.”

— Dean Koontz

203. “They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.”

— Dean Koontz

204. “The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.”

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205. “Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”

— Dean Koontz

206. “Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.”

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207. “Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.”

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208. “You can’t always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I’m doing it that way anyway.”

— Dean Koontz

209. “Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well – and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”

— Dean Koontz

210. “A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”

— Dean Koontz

211. “One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us.”

— Dean Koontz

212. “Adversity breeds toughness, and the tough succeed. And survive.”

— Dean Koontz

213. “Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.”

— Dean Koontz

214. “Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that’s good and true.”

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215. “I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I’d kill myself because I couldn’t live without her.”

— Dean Koontz

216. “Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.”

— Dean Koontz

217. “I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.”

— Dean Koontz

218. “Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.”

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219. “Evil never dies. It just changes faces.”

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220. “Insanity is not evil, but all evil is insane. Evil itself is never funny, but insanity sometimes can be. We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil’s power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.”

— Dean Koontz

221. “When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.”

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222. “Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.”

— Dean Koontz

223. “Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.”

— Dean Koontz

224. “Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.”

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225. “The hypocrisy of human interaction, wherein selflessness was publicly championed and selfishness privately pursued, both amused and disgusted him. Every act of kindness seemed, to him, to be performed only with an eye to the payback that might one day be extracted from the recipient.”

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226. “Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy. -Groucho Marx.”

— Dean Koontz

227. “It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.”

— Dean Koontz

228. “When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope.”

— Dean Koontz

229. “A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death’s patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.”

— Dean Koontz

230. “Only time conquers time and its burdens.”

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231. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

232. “If wishes were filet mignon, we’d always eat well at dinner.”

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233. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

234. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

235. “Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.”

— Dean Koontz

236. “Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.”

— Dean Koontz

237. “The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of a thousand peacefully slumbering children.”

— Dean Koontz

238. “Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.”

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239. “I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.”

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240. “The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you’re playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.”

— Dean Koontz

241. “No one’s more dangerous than a man who’s convinced of his own moral superiority.”

— Dean Koontz

242. “Maybe I’m needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren’t needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I’d obviously be psychotic.”

— Dean Koontz

243. “We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil’s power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.”

— Dean Koontz

244. “There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.”

— Dean Koontz

245. “Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.”

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246. “Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them. This is also part of the philosophy of Edgler Foreman Vess.”

— Dean Koontz

247. “The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.”

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248. “What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.”

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249. “We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches.”

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250. “I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.”

— Dean Koontz