Quote

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Dean Koontz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Everett
Pennsylvania
Dean Ray Koontz
Aaron Wolfe
Brian Coffey
David Axton
Deanna Dwyer
John Hill
K.R. Dwyer
Leigh Nichols
Anthony North
Owen West
Richard Paige
Anger
Turned
Emotion
Dangerous
Anyone
Vindictive
Violent
Driven

More quotes by Dean Koontz

Image
Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.
Dean Koontz
Image
In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
Dean Koontz
Image
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.
Dean Koontz
Image
Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.
Dean Koontz
Image
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.
Dean Koontz
Image
Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.
Dean Koontz
Image
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Dean Koontz
Image
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
Dean Koontz
Image
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz
Image
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
Dean Koontz
Image
Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.
Dean Koontz
Image
Only time conquers time and its burdens.
Dean Koontz
Image
Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
Dean Koontz
Image
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
Dean Koontz
Image
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
Dean Koontz
Image
Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.
Dean Koontz
Image
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
Dean Koontz
Image
Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
Dean Koontz
Image
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
Dean Koontz
Image
There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.
Dean Koontz