The Night Window Quotes

“Never waste energy beating yourself up. Other people are always standing in line to do it.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“The darkness was not an absence of light, but an absence of meaning, for meaning arose only from the exercise of free will.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“not one to dwell on loss, because to dwell on it was to disrespect the gift of life and risk becoming obsessed with the fact that all the losses throughout the years eventually lead to the loss of life itself.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“that she would have steadied him, that with her he would have found greater intellectual and emotional depths in himself than he would ever discover alone.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“Creating a neural [brain] lace is the thing that really matters for humanity to achieve symbiosis with machines. —ELON MUSK”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“who tell us they’re our leaders, our betters, them that claim to know how the future should be shaped—seems the smarter they get, the less they know. The more progress they force on us, the more ignorant they are about the consequences.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“Evil is always stupid and unimaginative. Creation is the hard thing. Destruction—evil—is easy and boring, the same short list of crimes and cruelties over and over.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“It’s a war. Mistake a war for an adventure, you won’t live long.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“The current culture deviated radically from previous human experience, ruthlessly reducing each woman and man to mere political units to be manipulated, balkanizing them into communities according to their likes and dislikes, so everything from cars to candy bars could be more effectively marketed, robbing them of their privacy, denying them both a real community of diverse views and the possibility of personal evolution by censoring the world they saw through the Internet to make it conform to the preferred beliefs of their self-appointed betters.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“no attempt at making a utopia on earth has led to other than disaster.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“Maybe he had endured tragedies and pain, numerous injustices and insults. She didn’t give a damn. Join the club; that was the human condition. What mattered wasn’t what they did to you, but whether you rose above the level of the users and tormentors—or whether you became one of them and did so with dark glee.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“automobile junkyard where numerous species of motor vehicles had come to their end, in places stacked atop one another like fertile beasts enjoying intercourse in a nightmare about self-reproducing machines.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“The current culture deviated radically from previous human experience, ruthlessly reducing each woman and man to mere political units to be manipulated, balkanizing them into communities according to their likes and dislikes, so everything from cars to candy bars could be more effectively marketed, robbing them of their privacy, denying them both a real community of diverse views and the possibility of personal evolution by censoring the world they saw through the Internet to make it conform to the preferred beliefs of their self-appointed betters. In”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“Courageous politicians existed, as did albino tigers and two-headed frogs.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“The darkness in the footwell seems to be crawling up his legs.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“He ejects the depleted magazine from the”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“Wealth and power meant nothing in the long run. What mattered was what you did in private, when no one was looking, when you either lived by the values you claimed in public or you didn’t.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“There was the work you sought in life and the harder work you were given that you wouldn’t have chosen. The truth, if you dared face it, was that you could never know with certainty which work mattered more, which would shape a better future; therefore, you couldn’t focus only on what you wanted and ignore what was needed of you.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“This country is ours. America is over. Arcadia is rising in its place.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“The truth, if you dared face it, was that you could never know with certainty which work mattered more, which would shape a better future; therefore, you couldn’t focus only on what you wanted and ignore what was needed of you.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“an alliance of convenience with evil of any kind would in time bear toxic fruit.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“The quarry will be armed with a nine-millimeter Glock featuring a ten-round magazine.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“In any crisis situation, the most important thing to do was get off the X, move, because if you weren’t moving away from the threat, someone with bad intentions was for damn sure moving closer to you.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“What mattered was what you did in private, when no one was looking, when you either lived by the values you claimed in public or you didn’t.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“I guess you should have brought a book to pass the time.” “Got one in my head. The Book of What If. Infinite number of pages and scary as shit.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“satori”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“People who tell us they’re our leaders, our betters, them that claim to know how the future should be shaped—seems the smarter they get, the less they know. The more progress they force on us, the more ignorant they are about the consequences. They don’t realize there’s truest evil in the world that’ll make misery from their progress, so they don’t guard against it. Worse, the smarter they get, the less they’re able to see evil in themselves.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window

“Of course bad things had happened to Vikram. No one got a free ride in this troubled world. There were times when he was sad, but those spells were transient and almost always related to the death of someone he loved or admired. For as long as he could remember, he’d understood that happiness was a choice, that there were people who didn’t realize it was theirs to choose or who, for whatever reason, preferred to be perpetually discontented, even angry, even despairing.”
― Dean Koontz, The Night Window