Gentle Is the Angel of Death Quotes

“But as usual, the common folk are wiser and more able to discern the truth of things than are the elites who claim to serve them.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“Time past and time future, what might have been and what has been, point to one end, which is always present.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“The undulant road winds across hills, down into hollows where mist slithers through the darkness like a procession of spirits proceeding toward their fate. The mountains, worn low by millennia of weather, offer no steep palisades, only rolling slopes that suggest that the landscape was inspired by the female form.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“and the faint reflections of the stars salt the low, smooth waves.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“A man who believes in nothing may look strong, but he’s fragile. He can be made to believe in anything, for the emptiness in him yearns to be filled.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“postmodern man who denies the existence of any Truth and believes that each of us makes his own truth that is as valid as any other.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“the common folk are wiser and more able to discern the truth of things than are the elites who claim to serve them.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“to preserve freedom and stave off a cruel totalitarian future, respect for truth must be restored.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“What he has seen is a nation gone insane. History attests that whole societies can turn away from truth and descend into a madness of lies in as little as a year. That was all it took in Germany in the late 1930s.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“from T. S. Eliot: Time past and time future, what might have been and what has been, point to one end, which is always present.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“The cold tide of evil rises relentlessly. Although the dikes that resist it can be built higher, the power of such an insistent tide is greater even than the power of a deep sea of water; though perhaps nothing can stand against Evil forever, there is at least a kind of honor in undertaking the effort to restrain the ultimate flood as long as possible.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death

“And how do you define ‘justice’?” Nameless meets the doctor’s intense gaze. “For a lot of people, the definition seems to change to fit the times and the culture of the moment. My definition doesn’t change. It isn’t about judges, who can be biased. It’s not about courts and laws that can be corrupted. To me, justice is nothing more or less than truth.”
― Dean Koontz, Gentle Is the Angel of Death