Cerise > Cerise's Quotes

“The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.”
― Frank Herbert

“Freedom is a lonely state.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the
users to employ each other the way they employ machines.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.”
― Jim Morrison

“Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion.”
― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer

“Death makes Angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as Ravens claws”
― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer

“We are the centuries... We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths. We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis, your Caesars and your chromium-plated (vital-ingredient impregnated) artifacts. We have your bloody hatchets and your Hiroshimas. We march in spite of Hell, we do – Atrophy, Entropy, and Proteus vulgaris, telling bawdy jokes about a farm girl name of Eve and a traveling salesman called Lucifer. We bury your dead and their reputations. We bury you. We are the centuries. Be born then, gasp wind, screech at the surgeon’s slap, seek manhood, taste a little godhood, feel pain, give birth, struggle a little while, succumb: (Dying, leave quietly by the rear exit, please.) Generation, regeneration, again, again, as in a ritual, with blood-stained vestments and nail-torn hands, children of Merlin, chasing a gleam. Children, too, of Eve, forever building Edens – and kicking them apart in berserk fury because somehow it isn’t the same. (AGH! AGH! AGH! – an idiot screams his mindless anguish amid the rubble. But quickly! let it be inundated by the choir, chanting Alleluias at ninety decibels.)”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz