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Quotes About Emotion

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.
~ Frank Herbert
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.
~ Frank Herbert
You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
~ Frank Herbert
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
~ Frank Herbert
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.
~ Frank Herbert
If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most.
~ Frank Herbert
Flesh that had cried in ecstasy, eyes that had burned him with their desire, the voice that had charmed him because it played no tricks of subtle control—all gone, back into the water and the sand.
~ Frank Herbert
Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.
~ Frank Herbert
Piter spoke to Jessica. I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat.
~ Frank Herbert
But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion.
~ Frank Herbert
That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.
~ Frank Herbert
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion
~ Frank Herbert
I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved...
~ Frank Herbert
Postoje stvari koje rije?i ne mogu objasniti. Moraš ih doživjeti bez rije?i.
~ Frank Herbert
In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.
~ Frank Herbert
The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.
~ Frank Herbert
The sandy juice of his fears could not be avoided.
~ Frank Herbert
Only once did Idaho speak. "You're not a virgin." "Nor are you, Love." "Love," he whispered. "Love, love, love . . ." "Yes . . . yes!" In
~ Frank Herbert
Jessica placed her palms against her cheeks, began the ritual breathing that stilled emotion and clarified the mind, then bent forward from the waist in the devotional exercise that prepared the body for the mind's demands. Paul's choice of this Cave of Birds as his command post could not be questioned, she knew.
~ Frank Herbert
Il n'est probablement pas de révélation plus terrible que l'instant où vous découvrez que votre père est un homme... fait de chair.
~ Frank Herbert
Thufir, I want you to examine your own emotional involvement in this. The natural human's an animal without logic. Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness. You're the embodiment of logic—a Mentat. Yet, your problem solutions are concepts that, in a very real sense, are projected outside yourself, there to be studied and rolled around, examined from all sides.
~ Frank Herbert
To accept a little-death is worse than death itself," Chani said.
~ Frank Herbert
Usul, you're crying," Chani murmured. "Usul, my strength
~ Frank Herbert
She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.
~ Frank Herbert