Quicksilver Quotes

“Throughout history, whole societies that seemed stable have imploded when self-righteous narcissists, enflamed by insane ideologies, so threatened the larger population of the sane that soon everyone feared to stand against the violence, whereupon madness accelerated. No one seemed to remember the lessons of history—or cared to learn them.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“A lot of people these days are the opposite of what they say they are, and a lot of them probably don’t even realize it. They’re opposed to racism even as they act like racists. They’re opposed to fascism, even as they act like fascists. The world’s gone weird.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“When feverish politics and demented ideology entwine, those who are not well anchored to the beliefs that allow a civil society can be swept away, becoming part of the storm of madness that lays waste to everything.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“First, it is a mistake to presume to know anyone’s internal emotional landscape based on what external emotional signals they seem to be sending. Second, you can apologize for something you have done, but only a fool apologizes for things that other people have done, for he has no authority to do that.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion. So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from the shore of truth that they couldn’t even see it.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Why aren’t we designed to be unable to harm one another? Why aren’t our brains wired so that we can’t kill or rape or steal or lie or deceive? Why are we formed with the capacity to hate and envy?”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“THE WAY AND THE WAY NOT”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“THE INNOCENT BOY, THE EVIL FATHER, THE ANTS, THE FISH, THE BIRDS”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“The envious among them corrupted all of their kind, seeding suspicion and resentment that became hatred, which they called a virtue, bitter hatred so destructive that they brought Earth to ruin.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“They say that ignorance is bliss. I think ignorance is the mother of extreme behavior, ensuring either a colorless and tedious life or one of passionate commitment to foolishness of one kind or another.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Well,” he said, “you can either do the wrong thing and let a loss like that destroy you, or you can do the right thing and be properly grateful for all that came before the loss. Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you’re saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don’t.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on. When”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Everyone has something to contribute. Everyone but sociopaths.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“I have always been an optimist, because pessimists seldom have any fun and usually fret their way into one of the horrible fates they spend their lives worrying about. Of course, being an optimist doesn’t guarantee you an unrelievedly happy life. You can still lose your job on the same day that your house burns down and your spouse informs you that he or she has shot the sheriff. But the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Well, I guess if you were going to spin me up in a cocoon or plant an egg in my brain or kill me, you'd have done it already. Come on in. Can I get you coffee or anything?”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“To those who lack a conscience, there is no such thing as remorse.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“have always been an optimist, because pessimists seldom have any fun and usually fret their way into one of the horrible fates they spend their lives worrying about.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Scientists learn from their mistakes, and that’s how science advances.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Or his conscience had been eaten away by the cancer of narcissism.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“We are what we are, and we need to have faith in that.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“So the peacemakers were bomb makers.” “A lot of people these days are the opposite of what they say they are, and a lot of them probably don’t even realize it. They’re opposed to racism even as they act like racists. They’re opposed to fascism, even as they act like fascists. The world’s gone weird.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“He’s not just your standard-issue cult con man who convinced a bunch of weak-minded followers that he has a direct line to God. He pretty much thinks he is a god, a god of sorts, immortal or destined to be. His PR became his dream of who he was, and his dream evolved into a toxic fantasy, and the fantasy became his truth. He’s enchanted by all the lies that are his life.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“despaired that so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion. So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“shore of truth that they couldn’t even see it. They were everywhere in our time, controlled by those who taught them to fear what didn’t threaten them and receive with gladness those ideas and forces that would rob them of purpose, of meaning, of security—and sooner than later would take away their”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“wicker, and it bestrode”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“not the perpetrators claimed a just and noble cause. Throughout history, whole societies that seemed stable have imploded when self-righteous narcissists, enflamed by insane ideologies, so threatened the larger population of the sane that soon everyone feared to stand against the violence, whereupon madness accelerated.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“Delayed gratification leads to greater satisfaction.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you’re saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don’t.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“taxonomy.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver