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Quotes About Isolation

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.
~ Frank Herbert
It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.
~ Frank Herbert
For the Gowachin, to stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence. — The Gowachin, a BuSab analysis
~ Frank Herbert
Sloboda može bit vrlo samotno stanje.
~ Frank Herbert
I'm like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness—until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. The thought hung in her mind, an enclosing awareness. And I say: "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?
~ Frank Herbert
Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders
~ Frank Herbert
Humans must never submit to animals.' "A dry sob shook her. In a low voice, she said: "I've been so lonely." "It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.
~ Frank Herbert
When you live upon Arrakis," she had said, "khala, the land is empty. The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.
~ Frank Herbert
The sandy juice of his fears could not be avoided.
~ Frank Herbert
Freedom is a lonely state.
~ Frank Herbert
O poder costuma isolar aqueles que o detêm em demasia. Por fim, acabam perdendo o contato com a realidade... e tombam.
~ Frank Herbert
Özgürlük bir yaln?zl?k halidir.
~ Frank Herbert
Humans are always most lonely.
~ Frank Herbert
One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it.
~ Frank Herbert
Paul stood alone now just into the ring, clad in the fighting trunks he'd worn under his stillsuit.
~ Frank Herbert
Arrakeen had become an ungenerous place, a contained place, unreasonable and self-righteous in its harsh outlines.
~ Frank Herbert
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.
~ Frank Herbert
Korku katilidir akl?n. Korku, mutlak y?k?m getiren küçük ölümdür. Korkumla yüzleÅŸeceÄŸim. Onun etraf?mdan ve içimden geçip gitmesine izin vereceÄŸim. Ve geçip gittiÄŸinde, onun izlediÄŸi yolu görmek için iç gözümü kullanaca??m. Korkunun geçtiÄŸi yerde hiçbir ÅŸey olmayacak. Yaln?zca ben kalaca??m.
~ Frank Herbert
The noise obviously wasn't penetrating to his quarters.
~ Frank Herbert
One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone.
~ Frank Herbert
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
He realized in this instant why he felt so terrifyingly lonely. He had no group, no place in a hive of fellow-activity, nothing to shield him from personal decisions that might overwhelm him.
~ Frank Herbert
On the Funeral Plain we learned to despise the men of the communities.
~ Frank Herbert
Le concept de progrès agit comme un mécanisme de protection destiné à nous isoler des terreurs de l'avenir.
~ Frank Herbert