Dean Koontz Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path. Dead and Alive

2. In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished. Breathless

3. Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch. False Memory

4. 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. A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

5. No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. Life Expectancy

6. The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

7. Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble. A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

8. What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life. Dead and Alive

9. You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope. Odd Thomas

10. Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path. Odd Thomas

11. Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better. Winter Moon

12. Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart. Intensity

13. How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death. False Memory

14. Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered? Dead and Alive

15. Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace. Brother Odd

16. 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. A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

17. On other walks, the retriever had been dismayed to discover the squirrels, which he could approach safely, were terrified of him. They froze with fear, stared wild-eyed, small hearts pounding visibly.WHY SQUIRRELS AFRAID? he had asked Travis one evening. "Instinct," Travis had explained. "You're a dog, and they know instinctively that dogs will attack and kill them." NOT ME."No, not you," Travis agreed, ruffling the dog's coat. "You wouldn't hurt them. But the squirrels don't know you're different, do they? To them, you look like a dog, and you smell like a dog, so you've got to be feared like a dog." I LIKE SQUIRRELS."I know. Unfortunately, they're not smart enough to realize it."Consequently, Einstein kept his distance from the squirrels and tried hard not to terrify them, often sauntering past with his head turned the other way as if unaware of them. Watchers

18. Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing. Chase

19. You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope. Odd Thomas