Dean Koontz Quotes

Hope lies in action

A broken thing can't fix itself.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love,

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's...quieter.

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.