less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea. Dean Koontz More Quotes by Dean Koontz More Quotes From Dean Koontz Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain. Dean Koontz psychicspainwriting No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. Dean Koontz happiness-is-a-choicechoiceshappiness Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls. Dean Koontz soulwaitingdoors All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart. Dean Koontz make-you-smilesoulheart There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. Dean Koontz realistevilworld He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often. Dean Koontz life-is-shortunhappypeople 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. Dean Koontz acceptancebravedog Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith. Dean Koontz achievetwohands A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost. Dean Koontz redemptionmemorialmay 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. Dean Koontz evilheartlove-is Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense. Dean Koontz sorrowgriefmight No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown. Dean Koontz betrayaldogrelationship Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare. Dean Koontz dogpastmoving 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. Dean Koontz intellectualtakenfaith We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. Dean Koontz takenjoywar The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. Dean Koontz barbariansfascinationcivilization We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. Dean Koontz responsibilitydarknesswatches In the end, it's all about perseverance. Dean Koontz funny-weddingperseveranceends There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it. Dean Koontz devilfearnight Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting. Dean Koontz eyesimplelying
