Too many of us die without knowing transcendent joy, in part because we pursue one form or another of materialism. We seek meaning in possessions, in pursuit of cosmic justice for earthly grievances, in the acquisition of power over others. But one day Death reveals that life is wasted in these cold passions, because zealotry of any kind precludes love except of the thing that is idolized.

Dean Koontz


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In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

Dean Koontz


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Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease.

Dean Koontz


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Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts; the moonless midnight of the mind.

Dean Koontz


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The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

Dean Koontz


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God does not shout; He whispers, and in that whisper is the way." Chyna Shepard in "Intensity

Dean Koontz

Stichwörter: fiction-novel



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The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.

Dean Koontz

Stichwörter: good-versus-evil



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We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we’ve witnessed of man’s inhumanity to man, we simply can’t go on. Perseverance is impossible if we don’t permit ourselves to hope.

Dean Koontz


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Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through a blizzard.

Dean Koontz

Stichwörter: blizzard nuns monster-trucks



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Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Dean Koontz

Stichwörter: inspirational play



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