Dune I Quotes

“We must walk without rhythm," Paul said and he called up memory of men
walking the sand . . . both prescient memory and real memory.
"Watch how I do it," he said. "This is how Fremen walk the sand."
He stepped out onto the windward face of the dune, following the curve of
it, moved with a dragging pace.
Jessica studied his progress for ten steps, followed, imitating him. She saw
the sense of it: they must sound like the natural shifting of sand . . . like
the wind. But muscles protested this unnatural, broken pattern: Step . . . drag
. . . drag . . . step . . . step . . . wait . . . drag . . . step . . .”
― Frank Herbert, Dune I

“Não se pode entender um processo interrompendo-o. O entendimento precisa acompanhar o fluxo do processo, tem de se juntar a ele e fluir com ele.”
― Frank Herbert, Duna, Volume Um

“Luego, mientras el planeta lo mataba, Kynes pensó que tanto su padre como el resto de los científicos se equivocaban, que los principios fundamentales del universo eran los errores y las casualidades.

Hasta los halcones lo sabían.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune I

“Elde etmenin de vakti vardır, yitirmenin de. Elde tutmanın da vakti vardır, bırakmanın da; sevginin de vakti vardır, nefretin de; savaşın da vakti vardır, barışın da”
― Frank Herbert, Duna, Volume Um

“Jessica shook tears from the corners of her eyes. It was an angry gesture. "You make me feel like a little girl again - reciting my first lesson.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune I

“The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow...if we're to have a tomorrow”
― Frank Herbert, Duna, Volume Um