Dean Koontz Despair Quotations

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.