Dean Koontz Quotes

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• The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

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  Dog, Kindness, Selfish

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.107, Bantam

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• No one can tell you what your heart should feel.

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  Heart, Should, Feels

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.232, Bantam

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• Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.

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  True Friend, Fun, Sacrifice

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

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  Humanity, Fool, Parades

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.73, Bantam

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• Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

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  Love, Thinking, Compassion

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• 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.

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  Dog, Prayer, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.80, Bantam

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• Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

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  Mind, Midnight, Sometimes

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.138, Bantam

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• Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

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  Stupid, Vigor, Given

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• The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

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  Laughter, Giving, Laughing

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• If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

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  Dog, President, Would Be

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• Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

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  Cake, Funny Food, Sweet Tooth

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• If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

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  Grateful, People, Giving

  Dean Koontz (1999). “Seize the Night”, Bantam

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• That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

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  Feel Better, Matter, Feels

  Twitter post from Feb 26, 2015

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• Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

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  House, Architecture, Ghost

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• 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.

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  Believe, Mean, Want

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.8, Bantam

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• The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

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  Responsibility, Justice, World

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• Reality isn't what it used to be.

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  Reality, Used, Used To Be

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.204, Bantam

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• Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

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  Pain, Writing, Psychics

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.134, Bantam

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• In the end, it's all about perseverance.

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  Perseverance, Funny Wedding, Ends

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• We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

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  Responsibility, Darkness, Watches

  FaceBook post by Dean Koontz from Jan 27, 2016

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• There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

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  Evil, World, Realist

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• Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

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  Light, Have Faith, Moments

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.134, Bantam

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• In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

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  Self, Defense, Sin

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• 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.

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  Dog, Moving, Past

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.722, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Faith, Taken, Intellectual

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.797, Bantam

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