Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. Dean Koontz More Quotes by Dean Koontz More Quotes From Dean Koontz 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. Dean Koontz desperate working-it pieces Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past. Dean Koontz real ambition love Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. Dean Koontz drunk car self The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner. Dean Koontz balance evil thinking Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive. Dean Koontz modesty earth self Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Dean Koontz purpose book people Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz vocabulary going-away trying Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood. Dean Koontz mother dream father I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is. Dean Koontz matter want needs If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. Dean Koontz stale boredom ability Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one Dean Koontz hard-work dog book Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved Dean Koontz loneliness hero dog You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it. Dean Koontz free-will given humanity Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. Dean Koontz childhood heritage insane Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable. Dean Koontz want mean believe The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about. Dean Koontz finals achievement process Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens. Dean Koontz often-can cheerful reality As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject. Dean Koontz numbers two ideas My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty. Dean Koontz brutality age love 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 intuition real dog
