Life Expectancy Quotes

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.”
― Dean R. Koontz, Life Expectancy

“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“Insanity is not evil, but all evil is insane. Evil itself is never funny, but insanity sometimes can be. We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil’s power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery,”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“the more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other—and to me.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“... She is awesomely competent without being smug. She is determined without being bossy, morally certain without being judgmental. She likes herself but is not full of herself.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“When you realize you’re fighting a fundamental law of the universe, it’s best to surrender to nature.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“Where there’s cake, there’s hope. And there’s always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“I believed suddenly not merely in evil as a necessary antagonist in movies and books—bad guys and boogeymen—not merely in evil as the consequence of parental rejection or parental indulgence or social injustice, but in Evil as a presence alive in the world.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“My parents didn't raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength to do the right thing, yes. Not for a winning lottery number, not for love or health, or happiness. Prayer is not a gimme list; God isn't Santa Claus.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“My wife, who is the linchpin of my life, claims that I have a presence much bigger than my physique. She says that people measure me by the impression I make on them.
I find this notion ludicrous. It is bullshit born of love.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“ravaged kidney; but, God willing, she would be able to enjoy a full life with the one that remained.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you’re playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“No one’s life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I’m the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a supporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter three or in chapter ten, or in chapter thirty-five. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“rather than a graceful arc, my passage seems to be a herky-jerky line from one crisis to another.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“wouldn’t that be ironic—run down by a hearse? God knows, life is often ironic in a way it’s never shown on television.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“the high wire above a big top. Even so, not one of us lives a perfectly normal, ordinary life in every regard. We are, after all, human beings, each of us unique to an extent that no member of any other species is different from others of its kind. We have instinct but we are not ruled by it. We feel the pull of the mindless herd, the allure of the pack, but we resist the extreme effects of this influence—and when we do not, we drag our societies down into the bloody wreckage of failed utopias, led by Hitler or Lenin, or Mao Tse-tung. And the wreckage reminds us that God gave us our individualism and that to surrender it is to follow a dark path.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“They’re nice, Jimmy, they really are, and they mean well. But they live inside themselves more than not, and they keep their doors closed. You see them mostly through windows.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“The encounter unfolded as though the deer moved in different universes from ours, as if we were briefly visible to each other through some window between our realities. Having no substance in each other’s realm, the SUV slid through the herd, and the frightened herd bounded past the SUV, and we didn’t collide with any of them, although we must have missed more than one by a fraction of an inch.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“Love can do all but raise the Dead—returned to me from English studies, as did the name of the poet, Emily Dickinson.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy