Dean Koontz Quotes

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.

I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

The meaning of life is life.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.