Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 6

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

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.

He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.

BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
Chapter 27 Page 214

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died.
Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished.
What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself.

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.

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?