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DEAN KOONTZ QUOTES II

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

DEAN KOONTZ, Fear Nothing

It's only life. We all get through it.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

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. Or her.

DEAN KOONTZ, Your Heart Belongs to Me

What is is. It doesn't matter why.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

Chaos half-loosed cannot be long controlled; it is all or nothing.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

From the day we're born ... we should all be afraid, but not of dying.

DEAN KOONTZ, Your Heart Belongs to Me

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy--well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

Loss is the hardest thing ... but it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

Desperation is energized despair.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

Bad men wound and destroy one another, although as targets they prefer those who are innocent and as pure as this world allows anyone to be. They feed on violence, but they feast on the despoiling of what is good.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

It was a lust for power of one kind or another that quivered at the root of every base human desire.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

The past is as locked in stone as a Jurassic fossil, but by our daily actions, we continuously change the future.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

Every talent is unearned ... and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

You can't stand an idea up against a wall and execute it. Neither can you wrap it up in a tissue of your better judgment and tuck it in a box of forgetfulness. An idea can be the most dangerous of all things, especially if it is an idea that promises you the most particular and exquisite happiness for which you've long yearned.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Apocalypse

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Hours

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

DEAN KOONTZ, The Good Guy

There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see--or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.

DEAN KOONTZ, Deeply Odd

We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. 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, The Darkest Evening of the Year

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