Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other – and to me.

— Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz Quotes

There is something sacred about great suffering, and it is the sacredness that makes the pain endurable.

— Dean Koontz

Everything we want is nothing here.

— Dean Koontz

Life can sometimes seem hopelessly complex, unpredictable, chaotic. Then a strange order makes itself known.

— Dean Koontz

This is an age when freedoms are fragile. Those in power speak loudly, ceaselessly about compassion but rarely exhibit any.

— Dean Koontz

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, which he painted in 1781.

— Dean Koontz

When a scientist tells you that ‘the science is settled’ in regard to any subject,” Lamar said, “he’s ceased to be a scientist, and he’s become an evangelist for one cult or another. The entire history of science is that nothing in science is ever settled. New discoveries are continuously made, and they upend old certainties.

— Dean Koontz

Joe never married, and he lived alone all his life. He had no need of four chairs, and yet he built the extra three, perhaps as an expression of hope.

— Dean Koontz

Your cousin Paulie, he has prostate cancer. Who knew he’s man enough to have a prostate?

— Dean Koontz

My point is, it’s clear to me that any great artist – musician, painter, sculptor, a fine prose stylist – is on a subconscious level a mathematician and a carpenter and a mason and an engineer. A great artist intuitively understands how the world is built and how it works and how people best fit into it. That’s how they’re able to create beauty – because they know the truth of things. An artist is a mathematician who knows the formulas of the soul. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

— Dean Koontz

They rarely speak, for the evergreen forests and the golden meadows and the great mountains rising to bare-rock summits are nature’s version of a cathedral.

— Dean Koontz

And the time of death is always.

— Dean Koontz

I think the past might be our future, that we’re busy laying the groundwork for new Dachaus, new Auschwitzes, all in the name of compassion, progress, justice, prosperity.

— Dean Koontz

There’s nowhere on Earth where people haven’t died in sorry ways.

— Dean Koontz

The Japanese had a highly developed sense of propriety, a complex system of social graces, and a very rigid set of standards concerning the conduct of personal relationships.

— Dean Koontz

According to the EPA, all the booming was – I quote – ’only mechanical sonic devices that simulate.

— Dean Koontz

She steps into the hallway and rushes after the woman.

— Dean Koontz

Among those busy hornets of the law, Durand Calaphas is unique.

— Dean Koontz

A fugitive is safest when the posse that’s after him is frightened and filled with division.

— Dean Koontz

They were conducting an experiment to learn to what extent sound has an effect, positive or negative, on algae.

— Dean Koontz

This was, after all, how some of the best things happened in life – by the mysterious working of synchronicity, incredible coincidence.

— Dean Koontz
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