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Dean Koontz Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
— Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Friends, leave behind, Life, Afterlife
“A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws.”
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Tagged: Dogs, Art, Nature, beauty
“You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.”
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Tagged: Hugging, Love, Touch
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”
— Dean Koontz, Dead And Alive
Tagged: alive, dead
“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
— Dean Koontz, False Memory
Tagged: Dogs, meditation, prayer
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Tagged: Dogs, Life, Pets, owners
“This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs, and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.”
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Tagged: Dogs, Wonder, Pets
“What we fear too much we often bring to pass.”
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel
Tagged: Fear, Stress, worry
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. 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
Tagged: Loss, God, Pain, Compassion
“Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance.”
— Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell: A Novel
Tagged: Dogs, therapy, Life
“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.”
— Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
Tagged: Death, Meaning, sacred
“No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.”
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Tagged: Dogs, Innocence, Relationships
“One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism, and sweeten the bitter heart.”
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
Tagged: Dogs, Happiness, Love
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