Devoted Quotes

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. —Mark Twain”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Mother Nature wasn’t really motherly. Mom said nature was more like a bipolar aunt who treated you kindly most of the time but, now and then, could be a real witch, conjuring killer storms and vicious animals, like big toothy mountain lions that, if given a menu, would always order tender children.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. —Franz Kafka”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“These days, many of the younger generation lacked a serious work ethic and, having been hooked on tech and social media most of their lives, had the attention span of a Chihuahua with ADHD.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. —Josh Billings”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. —Maurice Maeterlinck”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Stories were as delicious as food. As important as food.
Bella could not live without stories.
Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine.
You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“No matter how attentive their people were, dogs spent more time waiting than doing.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“In this beautiful but hard world, fate spared no species.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“There would be an impact on all religions and no less on science, for the majority of scientists in all disciplines were and always had been committed to theories as fiercely as political types were bound by ideology. Although science was never settled and was a perpetual process of discovery that undid past ideas, there were many who adamantly resisted all evidence that didn’t support the theories on which they had built their careers.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Truth could not be redefined. Truth was what it was.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“It was his nature to love beyond reason.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“People would be forced to confront the daunting fact that the truth they claimed to pursue and cherish was in fact a burden that they most often chose not to carry, that the lies they insisted they despised were instead often preferred to hard facts and cold reality.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Over the years, he’d been bitten three times, and every dog that had ever crossed his path had looked at him as though it wanted not only to bite him but to tear out his throat. All dogs looked at him the way wise cops looked at him, the way attractive women with street smarts looked at him, the way mothers with tender young daughters looked at him: with suspicion, disgust, and contempt.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Cruising the picturesque streets of his beloved Pinehaven, Carson began to understand that what he sought was an escape from the hubris of humanity, from the endless discontent of those who believed in one utopia or another in spite of the fact that history showed utopian thinking to lead inevitably to disaster and often to mass murder on an industrial scale. But of course there could be no escape from the overweening pride and arrogance of the species. You could withdraw, remake your life with a small circle of friends who didn’t wish to silence and punish their fellow countrymen with whom they disagreed, who knew the grievous threat to peace that arose from contempt for others, from an inflated self-esteem that became vainglory. But there was no town remote enough, no fortress walls high enough to protect you from mad ideas with mass appeal”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“When you were a high-functioning autistic genius, your developmental disorder, coming with a singular ability to concentrate intensely for long periods of time on what might seem to be mundane facts, was an advantage of great value.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“At 3:50 a.m., his eyelids flipped up with an almost audible click, and he became awake, with no chance whatsoever of falling back into sleep.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“He was neither thoughtless nor disobedient, merely a prisoner of his condition, impelled to act according to an interpretation of the moment and the circumstances that was logical to him but beyond her understanding.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“In addition to the scientists at Springville, twenty-two hundred Refine employees had answered to him. Now he has authority over no one. He had power, position, respect, twenty Tom Ford suits that he wore with colorful sneakers. All that is gone. He is alone. Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness. Lee Shacket has never been good at relationships. He’s”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“He believes that those intentions matter more than the consequences of his actions”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“hoi polloi.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“a world of wonder beyond.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“supposedly explained why some on their deathbeds hallucinated ministering angels”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“hormones intended to induce a sense of well-being.”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted

“the brain produced”
― Dean Koontz, Devoted