Top 500 Dean Koontz Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I’m Odd but I’m not nuts.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

203. “Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.”

— Dean Koontz

204. “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

205. “Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”

— Dean Koontz

206. “There’s lots of law these days, but not much justice.”

— Dean Koontz

207. “Maybe it’s not a gift. Maybe it’s a curse.” “It’s a gift.” Tapping my head, I said, “I’ve still got the box it came in.”

— Dean Koontz

208. “Power is the central promise of evil, the dark light of that lamp, because nothing extinguishes the soul more quickly than pride in power.”

— Dean Koontz

209. “Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever – no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all.”

— Dean Koontz

210. “A sea of lies can’t wash away a single grain of truth. Truth is what it is.”

— Dean Koontz

211. “Kipp yearned to say so much to her while time remained. Although his intelligence had somehow been enhanced to a human level, he lacked the vocal.”

— Dean Koontz

212. “And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”

— Dean Koontz

213. “Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be.”

— Dean Koontz

214. “Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

216. “Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could not tear it, a garment that could not be frayed by use, that brought warmth into what would otherwise be an intolerable, cold world- but at times love could also be as heavy as chain mail. Bearing the burden of love, on those occasions when it was a solemn weight, made it more precious when, in better times, it caught the wind in sleeves like wings, and lifted you.”

— Dean Koontz

217. “The corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?” – T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land.”

— Dean Koontz

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

232. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

236. “There are other worlds to sing in.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

240. “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

241. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

243. “Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable.”

— Dean Koontz

244. “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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

247. “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

248. “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

249. “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

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

— Dean Koontz