# Quote — Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

> 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.

- Author: [Dean Koontz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz.md)
- Book: [From the Corner of His Eye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/from-the-corner-of-his-eye.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/from-the-corner-of-his-eye/when-youre-as-hollow

## More from this book

> The cheerful tides of friends and neighbors, over the years, had washed away nearly all the stains that the dark rage Agne’s father had impressed on these rooms. She hoped her brothers might eventually see that hatred and anger are only scars upon a beach, while love is the rolling surf that ceaselessly smooths the sand.

p. 348 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/from-the-corner-of-his-eye/the-cheerful-tides.md)

> He's a hollow man. He believes in anything. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/from-the-corner-of-his-eye/hes-a-hollow.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/from-the-corner-of-his-eye/he-considered-himself.md)