Dean Koontz Quotes

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved - in that order.

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

I've been on the planet for 40 years now, and I'm still none the wiser as to what it's all about really. I've never worried about life's big questions. People at my age sit about pondering, 'Why are we here?' The only time I ever asked myself that is when Suzanne booked us a surprise holiday to Lanzarote.

The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.