Frank Herbert Quotes

Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.

Fate was sometimes inscrutable.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

He could close his eyes and recall the shouts of the crowds. So that is what they hope, he thought. And he remembered what the old Reverend Mother had said: Kwisatz Haderach. The memories touched his...

He’s awake and listening to us, said the old woman. Sly little rascal. She chuckled. But royalty has need of slyness. And if he’s really the Kwisatz Haderach…well….

How do we approach the study of Muad’Dib’s father? A man of surpassing warmth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Be...

How tempting it is to raise high walls and keep out change. Rot here in our own self-satisfied comfort.

I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has...

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the pe...

I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself, Paul said. I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.

I knew Frank Herbert for more than thirty-eight years. He was a magnificent human being, a man of great honor and distinction, and the most interesting person at any gathering, drawing listeners aroun...

I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil...

Jessica stopped beside him: ‘What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.’He spoke mechanically: ‘If only adults could relax like that.’ ‘Yes.’‘When do we lose it?’ He murmured…‘We do indeed lose s...

Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. —Darwi Odrade

Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.

Oholi podižu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokušavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove.

Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobičnija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Našim budućnostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka.

Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.

Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even...

Paul sat down where Hawat had been, straightened the papers. One more day here, he thought. He looked around the room. We’re leaving. The idea of departure was suddenly more real to him than it had ev...