“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Love
“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.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Imagination, Power, Dreams
“Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Perfection, damaged, emotions
“Fate isn’t one straight road… there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Fate, Choices, Free Will, Decisions
“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Darkness, Evil, humanity
“We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chan…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: tomorrow, yesterday, Second Chances, Progress
“The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: worry, Stress, surprise, Shock
“When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Misery, Change, comfortable
“The most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: humanity, inhumane, mean
“This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Eden, Hell, Arrogance, humanity
“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Time, Loneliness, Freedom
“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work--it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Love, Desperate
“We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Strangers, Distance, ourselves
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Pets, Life
“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Hope, Wrong, Mistakes
“Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts; the moonless midnight of the mind.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Thoughts, minds, Darkness
“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Fear, Reality, Anger, Justice
“Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Cookies, calming, soothing, comfort food