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Devoted QUOTES

Devoted QUOTES

1 " Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.
...Carson began to understand that what he sought was an escape from the hubris of humanity, from the endless discontent of those who believed in one utopia or another in spite of the fact that history showed utopian thinking to lead inevitably to disaster and often to mass murder on an industrial scale. But of course there could be no escape from the overweening pride and arrogance of the species. You could withdraw, remake your life with a small circle of friends who didn’t wish to silence and punish their fellow countrymen with whom they disagreed, who knew the grievous threat to peace that arose from contempt for others, from an inflated self-esteem that became vainglory. But there was no town remote enough, no fortress walls high enough to protect you from mad ideas with mass appeal. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

2 " Stories were as delicious as food. As important as food.
Bella could not live without stories.
Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine.
You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

3 " As technology races onward and with it enlightened thinking, as hidebound society is reshaped and outdated mores are consigned to the dustbin of history, as thrilling new social norms replace the old, as previous virtues come to be seen as mere weaknesses and raw power is rightly understood to be the sole remaining virtue, much will need to be burned. Shredded and burned, torn down and hammered into dust. A shining future cannot be built on a past of ignorance and error. To build a brighter tomorrow, it’s necessary to descend into a place darker than darkness, to clean the corrupt world with blood and destruction.
By the time he reaches the end of the hall, he is convinced that Megan’s paintings prove she is not woke to the better world that can be, will be.
Shacket will wake her to it. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

4 " Two species on this planet had been bonded for many thousands of years. Maybe more than a hundred thousand. Dogs and people.
Dogs had been at the side of human beings for millennia before horses or cats.
They had hunted together when hunting had been essential for survival.
They had protected each other from all threats in a primitive world where nature was even crueler than it was now.
Of all the creatures on Earth, only people and dogs engaged joyfully in play all the days of their lives.
In the relationship between humanity and dogs, some mutual destiny existed that had not yet been fulfilled. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

5 " Nature was a green battlefield where the weak were forever preyed on by the strong. Nature did not care, nor did the earth, which for all its beauty was nonetheless a hard place, indifferent to its creatures.
It was mind that mattered, mind that cared, mind that loved, the best works of the mind that changed this hard world for the better.
Mind—and the heart—had bonded people and dogs for tens of thousands of years. They had formed an alliance for survival and a covenant of affection against the darkness of the world. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

6 " If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. —Mark Twain "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

7 " Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

8 " These days, many of the younger generation lacked a serious work ethic and, having been hooked on tech and social media most of their lives, had the attention span of a Chihuahua with ADHD. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

9 " All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. —Franz Kafka "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

10 " Mother Nature wasn’t really motherly. Mom said nature was more like a bipolar aunt who treated you kindly most of the time but, now and then, could be a real witch, conjuring killer storms and vicious animals, like big toothy mountain lions that, if given a menu, would always order tender children. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

11 " A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. —Josh Billings "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

12 " We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. —Maurice Maeterlinck "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

13 " Truth could not be redefined. Truth was what it was. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

14 " In this beautiful but hard world, fate spared no species. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

15 " Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

16 " Considering the extreme violence and the cannibalism, Carson thought the public ought to be unduly alarmed. But his position was not elected, and having come from a city in which political power mattered more than any other force in society, he knew the folly of asserting the full truth of anything when those who had ascended through the ballot box preferred to support a version of the truth made more palatable to the voters. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

17 " All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

18 " He can’t endure being powerless. He cannot tolerate it. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

19 " Balzac had written, “Behind every great fortune, there is a crime,” which was both a cliché and a lie. However, "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted

20 " Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness. "

― Dean Koontz , Devoted