“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.”

“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.”

“There’s no escapeFrom death’s embrace,though you lead it ona merry chase.”

“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”

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

“Courage, love, friendship,compassion, and empathylift us above the simple beastsand define humanity.”

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

“Without a gleaning of purpose in life,we have no vision, we live in strife”

“We can embrace love; it's not too late.Why do we sleep, instead of with hate?Belief requires no suspensionto see that Hell is our invention.”

“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.”

“Holy men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.”

“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 maskwhich looks like all our faces.”

“Life without meaning cannot be borne.We find a mission to which we’re sworn”

“Night has patterns that can be readless by the living than by the dead.”

“Pestilence, disease, and warhaunt this sorry place.And nothing lasts forever;that’s a truth we have to face.”

“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.”

DEAN KOONTZ

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