Top 500 Dean Koontz Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.”

— Dean Koontz

352. “Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can’t eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.”

— Dean Koontz

353. “He is like a man living through the night before doomsday, with full knowledge that the sun will go nova in the morning, yet unable to enjoy the precious pleasures of this world because all his energy is devoted to wishing desperately that the foreseen end will not, after all, come to pass.”

— Dean Koontz

354. “Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ears.”

— Dean Koontz

355. “This isn’t a stupid horror movie, odd one. It’s never too late to do the intelligent thing.”

— Dean Koontz

356. “What doesn’t quicken dies. That’s an indisputable truth of life.”

— Dean Koontz

357. “This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.”

— Dean Koontz

358. “These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another. This is a big request to make of busy Fate, who has billions of lives to keep in constant turmoil.”

— Dean Koontz

359. “To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.”

— Dean Koontz

360. “My wife is my first audience. She’s a tough lady, so I can’t say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.”

— Dean Koontz

361. “We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.”

— Dean Koontz

362. “The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.”

— Dean Koontz

363. “Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.”

— Dean Koontz

364. “Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.”

— Dean Koontz

365. “I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I’m a potential slacker, so I don’t tempt myself.”

— Dean Koontz

366. “The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”

— Dean Koontz

367. “I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine.”

— Dean Koontz

368. “Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn’t mean that you can easily rebuild it.”

— Dean Koontz

369. “Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.”

— Dean Koontz

370. “Some days I’m lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.”

— Dean Koontz

371. “We are fallen in a broken world, and one thing that occurs to me is that after thousands of years, when we think of fallen angels, we think of them as we always have: busy spreading misery on Earth. But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.”

— Dean Koontz

372. “I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.”

— Dean Koontz

373. “This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.”

— Dean Koontz

374. “I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.”

— Dean Koontz

375. “In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it’s at the extreme end of their experience.”

— Dean Koontz

376. “I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think that’s potentially damaging to society.”

— Dean Koontz

377. “The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.”

— Dean Koontz

378. “If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you’re not proud of, use a pen-name for that.”

— Dean Koontz

379. “The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.”

— Dean Koontz

380. “Any town can die without actually drying up and blowing away. It can be as dead as a ghost town even with people still living in it.” Gazing.”

— Dean Koontz

381. “Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.”

— Dean Koontz

382. “Even if God exists, does He know that you do?”

— Dean Koontz

383. “Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.”

— Dean Koontz

384. “Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.”

— Dean Koontz

385. “My only armor is my belief that life has meaning and that, when my last sun has set and my last moon has risen, when the dawn comes that marks the moment when I am born with the dead, there will be mercy.”

— Dean Koontz

386. “Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.”

— Dean Koontz

387. “Everyone, Pax believed, was more than she or he appeared to be, and one of the saddest things about the human condition was that most people never realized what talents, capacities, and depth they possessed. That Pogo had taken a full measure of himself must be one reason that Bibi so loved him.”

— Dean Koontz

388. “Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.”

— Dean Koontz

389. “Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.”

— Dean Koontz

390. “These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings – and then ended up with none that were genuine.”

— Dean Koontz

391. “But all organic matter must have cell structure,” Sara said. “Cell structure is virtually a definition of organic matter, a requisite of all living tissue, plant or animal.”

— Dean Koontz

392. “I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.”

— Dean Koontz

393. “I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That’s the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.”

— Dean Koontz

394. “People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.”

— Dean Koontz

395. “I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.”

— Dean Koontz

396. “You’ve got to remember whatever happens-it’s only life, we all get through it.”

— Dean Koontz

397. “Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.”

— Dean Koontz

398. “Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day.”

— Dean Koontz

399. “You have a messiah complex, got to save the world.”

— Dean Koontz

400. “I knew what love felt like, for I had loved Father and, less powerfully.”

— Dean Koontz