Dean Ray Koontz citáty strana 4

„Pro lidské zlo neexistuje vysvětlení. Jen výmluvy.“

Oči soumraku

„Nic není věčné. Nic není věčné kromě smrti.“

Intenzita

„Všichni lidé, i ti nejmorálnější, si někdy musejí vybrat ze dvou zel to menší.“

Skrýš

„Život… to je jako když v cukrárně dostanete borůvkovej koláč, ale objednala jste si meruňkovej s oříškama. Takže v tom koláči, co máte, nejsou žádný meruňky ani oříšky a vy se můžete zbláznit samým přemejšlením o tom, o co přicházíte, když jediná rozumná věc je říct si, že borůvky maj taky něco do sebe.“

Přízraky

„Možná že nejsme bohatí, jenže největším majetkem je to, co uchováváme ve svých srdcích.“

Chladný plamen

„Tento svět, který by klidně mohl být Rájem, je místo toho předpeklím Pekla. V naší domýšlivosti jsme to tak zařídili.“

Podivný Thomas

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

Věčný Thomas

Dean Ray Koontz: Citáty anglicky

“But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.”

Dean Koontz kniha Forever Odd

Zdroj: Forever Odd

“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.”

Dean Koontz kniha Intensity

Zdroj: Intensity

“It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”

“I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.”

Dean Koontz kniha Lightning

Zdroj: Lightning

“Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.”

Dean Koontz kniha Relentless

Zdroj: Relentless

“The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.”

Dean Koontz kniha Odd Hours

Zdroj: Odd Hours

“Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.”

Dean Koontz kniha One Door Away from Heaven

Zdroj: One Door Away from Heaven

“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Zdroj: Odd Thomas

“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Zdroj: Odd Thomas

“What sucks the worst is… this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”

Zdroj: Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

“here in the summer desert, winter found my blood”

Dean Koontz kniha Forever Odd

Zdroj: Forever Odd

“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Zdroj: Odd Thomas

“Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.”

Dean Koontz kniha The Good Guy

Zdroj: The Good Guy

“The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.”

Dean Koontz kniha Deeply Odd

Zdroj: Deeply Odd

“Y'all take care of yourself now… strange and interesting friends are hard to find.”

Dean Koontz kniha False Memory

Zdroj: False Memory

“The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.”

“Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.”

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Zdroj: Odd Thomas

“What has been is no more. Change has come.”

Dean Koontz kniha Breathless

Zdroj: Breathless

“Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.”

Dean Koontz kniha Dead and Alive

Zdroj: Dead and Alive

“Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic….”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Zdroj: Odd Thomas

“Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.”

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”

Dean Koontz kniha Your Heart Belongs to Me

Zdroj: Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.”

“Your past is my Future.”

Zdroj: Innocence

“Live you can evade; death you cannot.”

Dean Koontz kniha Lightning

Lightning

“Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.”

Dean Koontz kniha Brother Odd

Brother Odd

“Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.”

Dean Koontz kniha Odd Apocalypse

Odd Apocalypse

“Evidently, Ted had walked down the block from his own house and entered with the intention of fixing something. Now Ted was broken, too, and beyond repair.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Zdroj: Odd Thomas (2003), Chapter 34; observation of Odd Thomas