20 of the best book quotes from Dean Koontz

“Holy men tell us life is a mystery.

They embrace that concept happily.

But some mysteries bite and bark

and come to get you in the dark.”

“Is there some meaning to this life?

What purpose lies behind the strife?

Whence do we come, where are we bound?

These cold questions echo and resound through each day, each lonely night.”

“In the real world as in dreams, nothing is quite as it seems.”

“Humanity yearns so desperately to equal God’s great creativity.

In some creations, how we shine: music, dance, story weaving, wine.”

“Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song.

In each man’s troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.”

“Life without meaning cannot be borne.

We find a mission to which we’re sworn”

“Night has patterns that can be read

less by the living than by the dead.”

“We make Hell real; we stoke its fires. And in its flames our hope expires. Heaven, too, is merely our creation. We can grant ourselves our own salvation. All that’s required is imagination.”

“We long to find the splendid light that will cast a revelatory beam upon the meaning of the human dream.”

“Evil is a faceless stranger,

living in a distant neighborhood.

Evil has a wholesome, hometown face,

with merry eyes and an open smile.

Evil walks among us, wearing a mask

which looks like all our faces.”

“To know the darkness is to love the light, to welcome dawn and fear the coming night.”

“Darkness devours every shining day.

Darkness demands and always has its way.

Darkness listens, watches, waits.

Darkness claims the day and celebrates.

Sometimes in silence darkness comes.

Sometimes with a gleeful banging of drums.”

“Pestilence, disease, and war

haunt this sorry place.

And nothing lasts forever;

that’s a truth we have to face.”

“There’s no escape

From death’s embrace,

though you lead it on

a merry chase.”

“Courage, love, friendship,

compassion, and empathy

lift us above the simple beasts

and define humanity.”

“Or are their dark fears exaggerated?

Are these doom-criers addlepated?

Those who fear the coming of all Hells are those who should be feared themselves”

“Stranger fiends hide here in human guise than reside in the valleys of Hell.

But goodness, kindness, and love arise in the heart of the poor beast, as well.”

“We spend vast energy and time plotting death for one another. No one, nowhere, is ever safe. Not father, child, or mother.”