After Death Quotes

“Simple pleasures are no less pleasurable than costlier pursuits. Pleasure is all in the heart, a matter of delight rather than dollars. A faithful dog can provide more joyful moments than a yacht. It’s only envy, a sickness of the mind, that causes disdain of simple things and greatly overvalues extravagance”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Following the three-lane blacktop, Nina knows what the rain and the night conceal. Grassy hills rise in the east, and beyond the hills lies the lesser desert, and beyond the first desert waits the true and more barren desert. To the west is woven a webwork of small cities and suburbs that crowd the shores of the sea, far from LA but bustling with commerce and compulsion, with ecstasy and horror, grace and cruelty, where most people are time ridden and wearier than they might know.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“it’s better to be UFO believers than to have been indoctrinated instead with any of the venomous ideas with which various politicians have poisoned the minds of once happy people that previously had been capable of reason.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Delusions are preferred, delusions and the comfort of a virtual reality.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Humankind, the poet said, cannot bear very much reality.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“The world reads but does not long remember, and what truth people find in books they most often dismiss as irrelevant.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“woke after midnight, the gathered shadows in this or that corner, or the dark beyond the open closet door, assumed the shape of a man at whom he stared for ten minutes, twenty, half an hour, dreading movement that would confirm”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“What life have you if you have not life together?”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Avatars do not make a community; they are shadows of people, not people.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Because the wicked often have a charisma that the naive view as godliness, rather than demonic suasion, some miscreants for a time raise mass movements in their defense.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“for even a Bentley is just a car.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Suspicion poisons relationships.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“A fugitive is safest when the posse that’s after him is frightened and filled with division.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“They jockey recklessly for position, as if nothing is more important than arriving at their destinations ten seconds faster than they might otherwise get there if they drove with any recognition of their mortality.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“The truth is, Michael, the only genuinely chaotic thing in the universe is humanity.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“the world is a hard place for everyone, that taking solace from—or finding virtue in—being a victim is a sure path to lifelong misery.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“This is the bold new age of Modern Monetary Theory, which holds that excess has no consequence because the government can tax the economy into prosperity and the treasury is bottomless, or something like that.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“And the time of death is always.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Simple pleasures are no less pleasurable than costlier pursuits. Pleasure is all in the heart, a matter of delight rather than dollars. A faithful dog can provide more joyful moments than a yacht. It’s only envy, a sickness of the mind, that causes disdain of simple things and greatly overvalues extravagance.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Killing and murder are different things, and killing evil men to prevent them from murdering others is not wicked work.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“A faithful dog can provide more joyful moments than a yacht. It’s only envy, a sickness of the mind, that causes disdain of simple things and greatly overvalues extravagance.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“But if poverty was the reward for doing right and success was the reward for doing wrong, then Earth had become so grievously distorted in its turning that no one possessed the power to restore it to its intended shape.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Humankind, the poet said, cannot bear very much reality. Delusions are preferred, delusions and the comfort of a virtual reality.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“You must never be like them, but you must always try to think like them to avoid underestimating the depths of wickedness to which they’re capable of descending.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Those who run the ISA are hard men and hard women. Ambitious and dedicated to their ideology, they believe that the means justify the ends, that evil actions sanctioned in the service of their agenda aren’t only defensible but also courageous.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Because criminals respect no legitimate authority, the law often restricts only the law-abiding, who are expected to go defenseless in the name of social order.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Words come to Peter from a poem by William Butler Yeats that Shelby Shrewsberry loved: We must laugh and we must sing / We are blest by everything / Everything we look upon is blest.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Also on the property is a stable for eight horses, though only three are currently in residence: Bree, Hwin, and Puzzle—one mare and two stallions.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“Residing in the house are Peter and Susan Pevensie, husband and wife, who are financially independent and who say they retired early to write novels. Their only child, Edward, is homeschooled, and they have a dog named Lucy. More”
― Dean Koontz, After Death

“If a thing isn’t ready to be, then wanting it too intensely is an affront to the ordained order of the world.”
― Dean Koontz, After Death