4 Dean R. Koontz Quotes on Purpose

Dean R. Koontz quotes on purpose

8. I thought of you as my guardian, Einstein: you taught me that I'm your guardian, too, that I'm Travis's guardian, and he is my guardian and yours. We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull.

20. He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing - but he did have a talent for baking: The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.

21. 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.

23. When you're as hollow as Enoch Kane, the emptiness aches. He's desperate to fill it, but he doesn't have the patience or the commitment to fill it with anything worthwhile: So a man like Kane obsesses on one thing after another - sex, money, food, power, drugs, alcohol - anything that seems to give meaning to his days, but that requires no real self-discovery or self-sacrifice.