Quotes About Survival

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

If some crazy bastard tossed you into a lake when you couldn't swim, and you learned to swim like that"—Bickel snapped his fingers—"and you found then you could just keep on going, wouldn't you swim like hell to get away from the crazy bastard?

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extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal

Arrakis - Dune - Desert Planet

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day—even if you're caught in the Great Erg.

The Fremen must be brave to live at the edge of that desert. By all accounts. They compose poems to their knives.

Nothing on this planet had so forcefully hammered into her the ultimate value of water. Not the water-sellers, not the dried skins of the natives, not stillsuits or the rules of water discipline. Here there was a substance more precious than all others—it was life itself and entwined all around with symbolism and ritual. Water.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Insanity is something like drowning,' said Sparrow. 'You go under; you flounder without direction;

Justice? Who asks for justice. We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die. Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power. This

The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

You see me, Father? I am a desert creature.

Love leads to misery. Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. Remember that woman's mistake, the pain.

You'll acquire the blue eyes and a callus beside your lovely nose from the filter tube to your stillsuit.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

Death and deceit are our only hopes now.

La sopravvivenza di se stessi, della specie, dell' ambiente, queste sono le cose che muovono gli esseri umani. Potete osservare come l'ordine d'importanza cambi nell'arco d'una vita. Quali sono le cose che suscitano una preoccupazione immediata a una certa età? Il clima? Lo stato della digestione? A lei o a lui importa davvero? Tutti quei vari tipi di fame che la carne sente e spera di soddisfare. Che altro può davvero importare?

Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. The

he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior few survived.

Humans can balance on strange surfaces, Odrade said. Even on unpredictable ones. It's called 'getting in tune.' Great musicians know it. Surfers I watched when I was a child on Gammu, they knew it. Some waves throw you but you're prepared for that. You climb back up and go at it once more.