Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. Dean Koontz More Quotes by Dean Koontz More Quotes From Dean Koontz The truth was stranger than the official fiction. Dean Koontz officials stranger fiction 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? Dean Koontz evil want children What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life. Dean Koontz truth-of-life dies What has been is no more. Change has come. Dean Koontz has-beens ...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist. Dean Koontz infinite-universe infinite might He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him. Dean Koontz different dream people She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. Dean Koontz divorce sorry together Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. Dean Koontz mental-illness psychotic depression I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her. Dean Koontz dump humour lost Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment. Dean Koontz choices path way When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on. Dean Koontz confusion life moving ...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room. Dean Koontz keys mind giving I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it! Dean Koontz odd-thomas dead-people people Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. Dean Koontz family disappointment home We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy. Dean Koontz generosity kindness love Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares. Dean Koontz care power culture The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. Dean Koontz pain humanity giving But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity. Dean Koontz caring responsibility self How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life. Dean Koontz butterfly spring life No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. Dean Koontz degrees sloth opportunity
