Quotes About Frank Herbert

I am a theater of processes, he told himself. I am a prey to the imperfect vision, to the race consciousness and its terrible purpose.

Halleck was a continual amazement—a head full of songs, quotations, and flowery phrases…and the heart of an assassin when it came to dealing with the Harkonnens.

It is said…." What a curious speech mannerism they have here. If they only knew what it reveals about their dependence on superstitions.

Do we not live in the shadow of the most dangerous creation the universe has ever seen? Dangerous creation… Their own mother refuses to live on the same planet with them!

action is illusory. Like appointing a committee to study a problem. The more people on the committee, the more preconceptions applied to the problem.

Oh, I don't imply that I've made my father's mistake and peered into the future with a glass of spice.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion. —Gowachin aphorism

Children of Dune is an exciting, vividly imagined novel. It is Frank Herbert at the top of his craft.

When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations. It is thus we should judge Muad'Dib.

There were forty Fremen—she and Paul made it forty-two.

Indeed, the young women of Arrakis were very beautiful that year. And the young men, too.

the face was predatory: thin, full of sharp angles and panes.

It was the Fremen who took off in that captured 'thopter, Hawat thought. He deliberately sacrificed himself to get that carrier. Great Mother! What are these Fremen?

Cool your sorrow—we've the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart—water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert once put it, "The mystery of life is not a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II