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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 7

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The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

Hate, Pride, Snakes

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

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.

Responsibility, Caring, Self

Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

Dog, Believe, Past

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

Doors, Names, Ravens

In this world only the paranoid survive.

Wise, World, This World

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

Grief, Loss, Everything Happens For A Reason

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.567, Bantam

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

Love, Life, Sex

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.

Soul, Opinion, Speak

Dean Koontz (2013). “Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel”, p.171, Bantam

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

Glimpse, Ordinary, Littles

Dean Koontz (2009). “A Big Little Life”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Evil, Excuse, Explanation

Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.433, Bantam

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

Hatred, Violence, Truth Is

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Boredom, Ability, Stale

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

Mind, Without Trust, Tranquil

Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.424, Bantam

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

Death, Mean, Odd Thomas

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.16, Bantam

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

Selfish, Struggle, Heart

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.216, Bantam

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

Worry, Limits, Causes

Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.255, Bantam

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

Perseverance, Men, Soul

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.

Dog, Real, Intuition

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.

Self, Earth, Modesty

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Childhood, Insane, Heritage

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.268, Bantam

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Truth, Heart, Dark

Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.8, Bantam

Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.

Dream, Stars, Powerful

Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.469, Bantam

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.

Book, People, Purpose

Dean Koontz (2013). “Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel”, p.34, Bantam

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

Night, Light, Giving

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

Dog, Loneliness, Hero

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