Dean Koontz Quotes

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

Yesterday is just a memory.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

Dear Willem: I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can see, it’s not going all that well. I guess more than anything, I want to know, did you just leave? If you did, it’s okay. I mean it’s not, but if I can know the truth, I can get over it. And if you didn’t leave, I don’t know what to say. Except I’m sorry that I did. I don’t know what your response will be at getting this letter, like a ghost from your past. But no matter what happened, I hope you’re okay.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

The past can be tamed and controlled.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.

I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.