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“the face was predatory: thin, full of sharp angles and panes.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Of course, the prophecy left certain latitude as to whether the Mother Goddess would bring the Messiah with her or produce Him on the scene. Still, there was this odd correspondence between prediction and persons.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless mutterings of old women.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. You and I, Thufir, of all those who love the Duke, are most ideally situated to destroy the other’s place.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“forever seeking, forever prepared and forever unready.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The waiting moment was packed with time, with rustling needle-stick movements.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: “Now, it’s complete because it’s ended here.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he’d rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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

“The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity,’ he said. ‘They say: “Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas,”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The size of the attack struck his mind like a physical blow.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace—those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The unknown brings its own worries,’ he said.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Who are we to combat poisons older than history and mankind”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Collection

“This idea of a black, hidden horror connected with incalculable gulfs of some sort of distance was oddly widespread and persistent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Collection

“That was when I waked half of Arkham with my screaming as I plunged madly up from the abyss of sleep.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Collection

“And always the shadow of nameless fear hung about the sealed trap-doors and the dark, windowless elder towers.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Collection

“The voice was baritone and with exquisite control. It managed to dismiss him while greeting him.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune