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Quotes About Death

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
~ Frank Herbert
My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.
~ Frank Herbert
Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.
~ Frank Herbert
We are the people of Misr," the old woman rasped. "Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die.
~ Frank Herbert
And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?
~ Frank Herbert
To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice? He
~ Frank Herbert
Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now. I just do not fool myself about Thufir's methods.
~ Frank Herbert
We don't die easily. I should be dead now... I will be dead soon... but I can't stop being an ecologist.
~ Frank Herbert
Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.
~ Frank Herbert
I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?
~ Frank Herbert
Usul gives moisture to the dead!
~ Frank Herbert
Nothing in the sadness at her death is too high a price to pay for the love we shared.
~ Frank Herbert
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
~ Frank Herbert
Death and deceit are our only hopes now.
~ Frank Herbert
Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. The
~ Frank Herbert
I will die four deaths—the death of the flesh, the death of the soul, the death of the myth and the death of reason. And all of these deaths contain the seed of resurrection.
~ Frank Herbert
These are the realities of this universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then, then you will understand what is meant by "life and death." Understanding this, you will be filled with joy.
~ Frank Herbert
BaÅŸlang?çlar! Hayat bunlardan ibaret iÅŸte! YaÅŸam var olduÄŸu sürece, her son bir baÅŸlang?çt?r. İnsanl???n sürdürülmesi s?ras?nda vuku bulan hiçbir ölümün tam bir baÅŸar?s?zl?k olmamas? bu yüzdendir. DoÄŸumun bizi bu kadar etkilemesi bu yüzdendir. En trajik ölümün gencin ölümü olmas? bu yüzdendir.
~ Frank Herbert
Death is a very personal thing. I will seldom interfere with it.
~ Frank Herbert
Ele fala da morte porque isso é necessário. É a tensão por meio da qual os vivos sabem que estão vivos.
~ Frank Herbert
La vida del profeta nos encierra en su visión —pensó Leto—. Y un profeta solo puede escapar de su visión forzando su muerte de una manera que no había vislumbrado en ella.»
~ Frank Herbert
A b?nui c? eÈ™ti muritor înseamn? a cunoaÈ™te începutul groazei. A afla cu certitudine c? eÈ™ti muritor, înseamn? a cunoaÈ™te sfârÈ™itul groazei.
~ Frank Herbert
Very well. Alia denied what she was and became that which she most feared. The past-within cannot be relegated to the unconscious. That is a dangerous course for any human, but for us who are pre-born, it is worse than death. And that is all I will say about Alia.
~ Frank Herbert
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