Quotes by Dean Koontz

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

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

“We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.”

“A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.”

“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You cant get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You cant lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because theyre so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I cant be silly and frivolous. If I died and found myself in Hell, I could endure the place if I had bunny slippers.”

“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. Dont give much thought to yesterday, dont 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. Sometimes black humor is the only kind we can summon, but even dark laughter can sustain.”

“The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.”

“Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.”

“One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people arent happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.”

“When tempest tossed, embrace chaos”

“Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we arent so special, bro.”

“Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.”

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

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.

Change isnt easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. Thats hard.

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.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

What doesnt quicken dies. Thats an indisputable truth of life.

You wont find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.