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Quotes About Survival

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
He wanted to flee from his own mind. It was a beast come to devour him!
~ Frank Herbert
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
~ Frank Herbert
Conditio ut extremis
~ Frank Herbert
What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction? —THE STOLEN JOURNALS
~ Frank Herbert
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.
~ Frank Herbert
How careless his people had grown, Paul thought. They were millionaires of water—forgetful of the days when a man on Arrakis could have been killed for just an eighth share of the water in his body.
~ Frank Herbert
In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be immortal and then only if its eggs are nurtured in widely scattered environments. This predicts a wealth of unique individuals. — Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text
~ Frank Herbert
Then he saw the human figures moving into the flower fields, sweeping them with strange scythelike devices—dew gatherers. Water so precious here that even the dew must be collected.
~ Frank Herbert
They demonstrate how motives of bureaucracy are directly opposed to the need for adapting to change. Adaptability is a prime requirement for life to survive.
~ 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
A sobrevivência é a capacidade de nadar em águas estranhas
~ Frank Herbert
Korku katilidir akl?n. Korku, mutlak y?k?m getiren küçük ölümdür.
~ Frank Herbert
Cuando una criatura se ha desarrollado de un modo determinado, elegirá morir antes que cambiar a su opuesto.
~ Frank Herbert
The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy.
~ Frank Herbert
The sandtrout," he repeated, "was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet . . . and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase.
~ Frank Herbert
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.
~ Frank Herbert
Drink all your water," Paul said. "Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your stillsuit.
~ Frank Herbert
Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.
~ Frank Herbert
logic is good for playing pyramid chess but often too slow for needs of survival.
~ Frank Herbert
She rejoiced that House Atreides had survived, but the things-that-might-have-?been were beyond bearing.
~ Frank Herbert
He felt the liquid gush into his throat as Chani pressed the sack
~ Frank Herbert
profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.
~ Frank Herbert
The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.
~ Frank Herbert