Dean Koontz Quotes

Most popular Dean Koontz Quotes

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
— Dean Koontz Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

hope

The past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
— Dean Koontz

second chances

Pain is a gift.  Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
— Dean Koontz Velocity: A Novel

pain

Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark.  We've no light within, and we're just living to die.
— Dean Koontz From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel

purpose of life

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.
— Dean Koontz Fear Nothing: A Novel

time

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled.  Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
— Dean Koontz 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies

novels

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.
— Dean Koontz The Good Guy

fear

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
— Dean Koontz The Taking: A Novel

disasters

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.
— Dean Koontz Forever Odd

beliefs

Blizzards, floods, volcanos [sic], hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
— Dean Koontz The Taking

nature