Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 2

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.

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.

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

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.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

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