Quotes from Frank Herbert

My lungs taste the air of Time Blown past falling sands….

that contract of brutal caution, to enter the necessary fact on the necessary line: "Please list your next of kin.

Probabilmente non c'è momento più terribile, nella nostra vita, di quello in cui si scopre che nostro padre è un uomo... in carne ed ossa.

I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. You must remember that he was an emperor, father-head of a dynasty that reached back into the dimmest history. But we denied him a legal son. Was this not the most terrible defeat a ruler ever suffered? My mother obeyed her Sister Superiors where the Lady Jessica disobeyed. Which of them was the stronger? History already has answered.

And, I should add, except when you see it at the dinner table.

GeçmiÅŸi hat?rlayamayanlar onu tekrarlamaya makûmdur.

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand.

A faint green-pearl luminescence etched the eastern horizon.

Usar la fuerza bruta es volverse uno mismo infinitamente vulnerable a las fuerzas superiores.

It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Fremen possessed a highly evolved conscience which centered on their own welfare as a people. It was only to outsiders that they seemed brutish—just as outsiders appeared brutish to Fremen. Every Fremen knew very well that he could do a brutal thing and feel no guilt.

What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can't your universe merely be?

The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.

She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments.

È una caratteristica umana il fatto che i nostri problemi personali, quelli che più s'identificano con noi stessi, sono i più difficili da esaminare con la nostra logica. Abbiamo la tendenza a ricercarne le cause intorno a noi, accusando tutto e tutti, salvo la cosa ben reale e profondamente radicata in noi, che ci consuma.

The agnostic ruling class for whom religion was a kind of puppet show to amuse the polpulace and keep it docile, and who believed essentially that all phenomena – even religious phenomena – could be reduced to mechanical explanations.

He had acted so strangely before they retired, she thought. Withdrawn. He was like one come back from the dead, not yet fully aware of his return, his eyes half shut and glassy with the inward stare. It made her think of his warning about the spice-impregnated diet: addictive.

We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God.

And the race knew only one sure way for this—the ancient way, the tried and certain way that rolled over everything in its path: jihad.

S? nu m? tem. Frica ucide mintea. Frica este moartea m?runt?, purt?toarea desfiin??rii totale. Voi înfrunta frica. O voi l?sa s? treac? peste mine, prin mine. ?i, dup? ce va fi trecut, îmi voi întoarce ochiul interior È™i voi privi în urma ei. Pe unde a trecut frica, nu va mai fi nimic. Voi r?mâne doar eu.

Per lui, ogni goccia che cadeva era un attimo che moriva. Sentiva il tempo scorrere dentro di lui, e ogni istante non poteva esser più ricatturato. Sentì il bisogno di prendere una decisione, ma non aveva la forza di muoversi.

Muad'Dib aprendeu rápido porque primeiro lhe ensinaram como aprender. E a primeira lição de todas foi desenvolver a confiança fundamental de que ele era capaz de aprender.

Un líder es una de las cosas que diferencia a una turba de un pueblo. Es alguien que mantiene la individualidad. Cuando hay poca individualidad