From the Corner of His Eye Quotes

“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy, or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down’s-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of kindness—even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile—reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will. All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined—those dead, those living, those generations yet to come—that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands. Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength—to the very survival of the human tapestry. Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”
― Dean R. Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“When we don’t allow ourselves to hope, we don’t allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We’ve no light within, and we’re just living to die.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Marriage is an expression of love and respect and trust and faith in the future, but the union of husband and wife is also an alliance against the challenges and tragedies of life, a promise that with me in your corner, you will never stand alone.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“You must never lie to yourself, or you are left with no one to trust.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Life was like the ice on an early-winter pond: more fragile than it appeared to be, riddled by hidden fractures, with a cold darkness below.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“In the healing ways of women that remained mysterious to [him] even as he watched them do their work, tears were followed by reminiscences that brought a smile and soothed, and hope was always found to be the flower that bloomed from every seed of hopelessness.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined those dead, those living, those generations yet to come that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands. Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength to the very survival of the human tapestry. Every hour in every life contains such often unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“He’s a hollow man, he believes in nothing. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Hatred and anger are only scars upon a beach, while love is the rolling surf that ceaselessly smooths the sand.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Las decisiones que cada uno de nosotros tomamos y las acciones que acompañan a dichas decisiones son como vibraciones en la cuerda de una guitarra”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“...every day in every life is of the most profound importance.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“He can't always watch us directly,...with his fullest attention every minute, but He's always at least watching from the corner of his eye.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. —This Momentous Day, H.R. White”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Two murders and an act of arson. Junior was being a bold boy this evening”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“life’s about living and being happy, not about dying.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“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, From the Corner of His Eye

“The hospital was drowned in the bottomless silence that fills”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor"
"A ship without an anchor can never be at rest”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“In her arms she held Bartholomew. The infant was not heavily bundled, for the weather was unseasonably mild. Agnes wouldn’t have been able to bear her ordeal without the baby. This small weight in her arms was an anchor dropped in the sea of the future, preventing her from drifting back into memories of days gone by, so many good days with Joey, memories which, at this critical moment, would strike like hammer blows upon her heart. Later, they would comfort her. Not yet.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Nolly Wolfstan, private detective, had the teeth of a god and a face so unfortunate that it argued convincingly against the existence of a benign deity.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Mr. Vanadium, your quarter trick is really cool. But here’s something out of Heinlein.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“soon the girls had Barty enthusiastically involved in a make-believe world far different from the one in which Heinlein’s teenage lead owned an extraordinary alien pet with eight legs, the temperament of a kitten, and an appetite for everything from grizzly bears to Buicks.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“Of all the gifts that Barty opened on Christmas morning, the hardback copy of Robert Heinlein’s The Star Beast was his favorite. Instantly enchanted by the promise of an amusing alien creature, space travel, an exotic future, and lots of adventure, he seized every opportunity throughout the busy day to crack open those pages and to step out of Bright Beach into stranger places.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“as would Robert Heinlein’s The Star Beast, which was among his Christmas gifts that year.”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

“all-seeing and all-knowing. Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage,”
― Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye