In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

— Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz Quotes

Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.

— Dean Koontz

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.

— Dean Koontz

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

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

— Dean Koontz

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

— Dean Koontz

In the end, it’s all about perseverance.

— Dean Koontz

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

— Dean Koontz

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

— Dean Koontz

When I’m working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

— Dean Koontz

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

— Dean Koontz

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

— Dean Koontz

If wishes were filet mignon, we’d always eat well at dinner.

— Dean Koontz

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.

— Dean Koontz

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

— Dean Koontz

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

— Dean Koontz

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

One man’s idea of perfect order is another man’s chaos.

— Dean Koontz

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

— Dean Koontz
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