Velocity Quotes

“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Inaction counted as a choice.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Are you prepared for the first wound?”
― Dean R. Koontz, Velocity

“What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“الألم نعمة، فالبشرية من دون ألم، لا تعرف الخوف أو الشفقة، فمن دون خوف، لا يمكن أن يكون هناك تواضع، ويصبح كل إنسان وحشا، فرؤية الألم عند الآخرين يولِّد فينا الشّفقة، وفي شفقنا تكمن إنسانيتنا، خلاصنا.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves,our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“GUILT SPILLS ITSELF IN FEAR OF BEING SPILT,”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“He had the raw, rough voice of one who had marinated his larynx in whiskey and slow-cooked it in years of cigarette smoke.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“He only hoped to live, and lived on guarded hope.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility….”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“May the judgment not be too heavy upon us.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“picking a lock isn’t as easy as it appears to be in movies. Neither is seducing a woman or killing a man, or anything else.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain, and from the friend who has something to lose.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“THREE BUTTERFLIES, AERIAL GEISHAS, DANCED out of the sunshine, into the porch shadows. Their silken kimonos flaring and folding and flaring in graceful swirls of color, as bashful as faces hidden behind the pleats of hand-painted fans, they fled, quick, into the brightness from which they had come.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Besides, some books contained disturbing ideas. They started you thinking about things you wanted to forget, and though your thoughts became intolerable, you could not put them to rest. The”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“He was in the tides now, but not by choice. Events had thrown him in deep, swift water. The weight of twenty years of guarded emotions, of studied avoidance, of defensive reclusiveness, encumbered him. Now he was trying to learn to swim again, but a riptide seemed to be sweeping him farther from any community, toward greater isolation.”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity

“Maybe to his nemesis, the world was a stage, reality was a fraud, and all was artifice. How”
― Dean Koontz, Velocity