Top 500 Frank Herbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.”

— Frank Herbert

352. “When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.”

— Frank Herbert

353. “My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.”

— Frank Herbert

354. “Gurney says there’s no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.”

— Frank Herbert

355. “There’s hope left in these dusty chords. There’s a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.”

— Frank Herbert

356. “Pain,” she sniffed. “A human can override any nerve in the body.”

— Frank Herbert

357. “Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.”

— Frank Herbert

358. “The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We.”

— Frank Herbert

359. “You see, Count, I have the Emperor’s prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me.” The.”

— Frank Herbert

360. “Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.”

— Frank Herbert

361. “You know it’s love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

— Frank Herbert

362. “Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” Jessica.”

— Frank Herbert

363. “It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.”

— Frank Herbert

364. “Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.”

— Frank Herbert

365. “Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul’s face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.”

— Frank Herbert

366. “I’m the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me – all bearing for someone else to pick.”

— Frank Herbert

367. “Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.”

— Frank Herbert

368. “And those who pray for dew on the deserts edge; shall bring forth the deluge.”

— Frank Herbert

369. “Reason is valuable,” he said, “only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.” Her.”

— Frank Herbert

370. “The Zensunni approach to birth,” he said, urging her even faster, “is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”

— Frank Herbert

371. “Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they’d bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And it puts a new shape on hate.”

— Frank Herbert

372. “He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.”

— Frank Herbert

373. “And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.”

— Frank Herbert

374. “That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

— Frank Herbert

375. “Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe – a man to be trusted because the captain’s vices were known.”

— Frank Herbert

376. “Feints within feints within feints.”

— Frank Herbert

377. “There’s no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It’s unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.”

— Frank Herbert

378. “A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.”

— Frank Herbert

379. “I should’ve suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.”

— Frank Herbert

380. “Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”

— Frank Herbert

381. “You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach.” Jessica.”

— Frank Herbert

382. “The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow...”

— Frank Herbert

383. “The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II.”

— Frank Herbert

384. “No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.”

— Frank Herbert

385. “Anything and anyone can fail,” he said, “but brave good friends help.”

— Frank Herbert

386. “What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground – and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.”

— Frank Herbert

387. “That which submits rules.”

— Frank Herbert

388. “They’ve lost the initiative, which means they’ve lost the war.” Gurney.”

— Frank Herbert

389. “Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? –.”

— Frank Herbert

390. “Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.”

— Frank Herbert

391. “We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.”

— Frank Herbert

392. “Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles – the CHOAM Company.”

— Frank Herbert

393. “Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!”

— Frank Herbert

394. “All around the Lady Jessica – piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces – stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases – some partly unpacked.”

— Frank Herbert

395. “The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

— Frank Herbert

396. “What the eyes had seen could not be erased.”

— Frank Herbert

397. “Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.”

— Frank Herbert

398. “The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.”

— Frank Herbert

399. “To accept a little death is worse than death itself.”

— Frank Herbert

400. “Forgive you?” Leto’s voice was full of sweet reason. “Of course I forgive you. That is your God’s function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.”

— Frank Herbert