Top 500 Dean Koontz Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “No, if there’s any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.”

— Dean Koontz

302. “There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people’s free will when they decided to do the Devil’s work. People are doing the Devil’s work everywhere you go; there’s no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.”

— Dean Koontz

303. “I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.”

— Dean Koontz

304. “Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.”

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305. “You can’t fix things with a hug, but you can’t make them any worse either.”

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306. “I’m no more a wonder than anyone. And that’s what makes the world magical. Every baby’s a seed of wonder – that gets watered or it doesn’t.”

— Dean Koontz

307. “I can’t go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.”

— Dean Koontz

308. “I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.”

— Dean Koontz

309. “All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.”

— Dean Koontz

310. “Furies, Alecto. In classic mythology, Tisiphone and Megaera and Alecto, daughters of the earth goddess Gaea, punished crimes in the name of the victims.”

— Dean Koontz

311. “Are you prepared for the first wound?”

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312. “I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don’t want to be an enabler, sir. I’d rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.”

— Dean Koontz

313. “To a predator, fear indicates weakness.”

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314. “To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be with us in the future until the end point. Only time conquers time and its burdens. There is no grief before or after time, which is all the consolation we should need.”

— Dean Koontz

315. “It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”

— Dean Koontz

316. “I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.”

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317. “Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.”

— Dean Koontz

318. “The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith.”

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319. “The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”

— Dean Koontz

320. “The rain wasn’t the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.”

— Dean Koontz

321. “I curse the night I let your idiot father squirt you into me.”

— Dean Koontz

322. “Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children.”

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323. “Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.”

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324. “I think to myself, I play to myself, and nobody knows what I say to myself.”

— Dean Koontz

325. “I’ve a long list of things I don’t know how I’ve done, but I’ve done them. In the end, it’s always about perseverance.”

— Dean Koontz

326. “The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.”

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327. “Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. 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. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”

— Dean Koontz

328. “Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt.”

— Dean Koontz

329. “Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.”

— Dean Koontz

330. “He once told me that an August evening was “as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart,” a comparison that left me blinking two days later.”

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331. “What we do as a society is seek simple answers.”

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332. “She’d been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.”

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333. “Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.”

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334. “I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.”

— Dean Koontz

335. “A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.”

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336. “Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.”

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337. “To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself – always, always, always – and is at last recognized, because there’s so damn little of it.”

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338. “Maybe from now on the bittersweet memory of a child lost would be only the sweet memory of a child loved. And maybe, henceforth, it would not be a memory so heavy that it oppressed the heart.”

— Dean Koontz

339. “Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?”

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340. “Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it’s a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”

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341. “The given world dazzles with wonder, poetry, and purpose. The man-made world, on the other hand, is a perverse realm of ego and envy, where power-mad cynics make false idols of themselves and where the meek have no inheritance because they have gladly surrendered it to their idols in return not for lasting glory but for an occasional parade, not for bread but for the promise of bread.”

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342. “Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.”

— Dean Koontz

343. “Amazement and astonishment express the momentary overwhelming of the mind by something beyond expectation. Amazement is an emotional response, astonishment an intellectual one.”

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344. “Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.”

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345. “I think the world is an interesting place and I don’t think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there’s a purpose.”

— Dean Koontz

346. “Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there’s a safe harbor past the terror.”

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347. “The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination’s loom.”

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348. “I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.”

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349. “I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.”

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350. “In a crunch a man’s reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.”

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