Nicole > Nicole's Quotes

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

“Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”
― Dean Koontz

“Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.”
― Dean Koontz

“No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.”
― Dean R. Koontz, Life Expectancy

“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
― Dean Koontz

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”
― Dean Koontz, Lightning

“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“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, Your Heart Belongs to Me

“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
― Dean Koontz, Intensity

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

“We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
― Dean Koontz

“Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. ”
― Dean Koontz

“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”
― Dean Koontz

“For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

“Carpe Deim, Carpe Noctem.”
― Dean Koontz, Seize the Night

“In this world only the paranoid survive.”
― Dean Koontz, Midnight

“Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.”
― Dean Koontz, Intensity

“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, Forever Odd

“Reality isn't what it used to be.”
― Dean Koontz, The Taking

“Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us."
If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.”
― Dean Koontz, The Taking

“I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.'
We don't have pigeons.'
Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.”
― Dean Koontz

“...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

“Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.
-The Book of Counted Sorrows”
― Dean Koontz

“Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.”
― Dean Koontz, False Memory