Quotes from Brian Herbert

With few ambitions, most people allowed efficient machines to perform everyday tasks for them. Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream... or truly live.

Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.

We are indeed miserable, my friends, but we don't have to be dismal about it.

The only guarantee in life is death, and the only guarantee in death is its shocking unpredictability.

As a human being, I was born on the brink of personal destruction, and I have spent my life dancing along the edge of that cliff.

Not all accidents are what they seem. Victims do no even know why they have been chosen.

We are animals, yet are expected to be so much more. Although honor requires us to make altruistic decisions, even acting for the benefit of other people keeps coming back to self-interest, no matter how much one attempts to conceal it.

Some people consider facts to be dangerous things that must be locked away and carefully guarded. But I consider mysteries a far greater threat. We should seek answers wherever possible, regardless of the consequences. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, secret Erasmus dialogues

Absolute rules are for unthinking people. Sheep require fences—humans do not.

Her face looked like a fruit from which all the juice had been sucked.

We must face our responsibilities regardless of whether we get what we want.

Politics is a tangled web, an intricate labyrinth, an ever-shifting kaleidoscopic pattern. And it is not pretty.

Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself.

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!

What is this Love that so many speak of with such apparent familiarity? Do they truly comprehend how unattainable it is? Are there not as many definitions of Love as there are stars in the universe?

Though death will cancel it, life in this world is a glorious thing.

The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

Some say that the anticipation of a thing is better than the thing itself. In my view, this is utter nonsense. Any fool can imagine a prize. I desire the tangible.

A man may fight the greatest enemy, take the longest journey, survive the most grievous wound -- and still be helpless in the hands of the woman he loves.

The tapestry of the universe is vast and complex, with infinite patterns. While threads of tragedy may form the primary weave, humanity with its undaunted optimism still manages to embroider small designs of happiness and love.

But this … creature was none of those things. He was barely distinguishable from an animal. The young man—singlehandedly—seemed intent on increasing the universe's entropy by an order of magnitude.

War, as the foremost ecological disaster of any age, merely reflects the larger state of human affairs in which the total organism called "humanity" finds its existence. —PARDOT KYNES, Reflections on the Disaster at Salusa Secundus

Your outrageous and reckless chaos is the only reason you are able to beat me in any strategy game," Seurat said. "It certainly has nothing to do with your innate skills.