Quotes About Destiny

How do we approach the study of Muad'Dib's father? A man of surpassing warmth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Bene Gesserit lady; the dreams he held for his son; the devotion with which men served him. You see him there—a man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory of his son. Still, one must ask: What is the son but an extension of the father?

Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

There are some things no one can bear. I meddled in all the possible futures I could create until, finally, they created me.

He found that he no longer could hate the Bene Gesserit or the Emperor or even the Harkonnens. They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle and infuse their bloodlines in a great new pooling of genes. And the race knew only one sure way for this—the ancient way, the tried and certain way that rolled over everything in its path: jihad. Surely

That girl! She was like a touch of destiny

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

I succumbed to the lure of the oracle , he thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We

They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.

Yes. They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.' Yes…that's what they'll call me." And

?uvaj se staza koje sužavaju budu?e mogu?nosti. Takve staze odmi?u od beskona?nosti i navode te u klopke smrtnosti.

Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

The future is a thing to be shaped, Scytale said. Hold that thought, Princess.

Cualquier camino que se sigue con exactitud hasta el fin, conduce con la misma exactitud a ninguna parte. Escalad la montaña solo un poco para comprobar que es una montaña. Desde la cima, no podréis ver la montaña».

to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that." Jessica

Fate was sometimes inscrutable.

Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

There will be sadness, Alia intoned. I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity.

You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach." Jessica

Leto spoke the truth: Muad'Dib had changed all that. Stilgar felt lost.

And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.

And Paul saw how futile were any efforts of his to change any smallest bit of this. He had thought to oppose the jihad within himself, but the jihad would be. His legions would rage out from Arrakis even without him. They needed only the legend he already had become.