“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“ There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear... And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death? — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“We are the people of Misr,” the old woman rasped. “Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
