Quotes About Destiny

Perhaps you are the Kwisatz Haderach. Sit down, little brother, here at my feet." "I prefer to stand." "Your mother sat at my feet once." "I'm not my mother." "You hate us a little, eh?

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: 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.

They're in league with the future

Every people subjugated by the jihad now dreams of a leader to come.

Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person. —BENE GESSERIT TEACHING

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

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.

That girl! She was like a touch of destiny. He felt caught up in a wave, in tune with a motion that lifted all his spirits.

I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today.

Sietch Tabr is mine. I rule here. I am a Naib of the Fremen. Without me there would have been no Muad'Dib. These twins, now . . . through Chani, their mother and my kinswoman, my blood flows in their veins. I am there with Muad'Dib and Chani and all the others. What have we done to our universe?

She rejoiced that House Atreides had survived, but the things-that-might-have-?been were beyond bearing.

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

Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

Se dice que un día vendrá un hombre que, con el don de la droga

when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.

Thufir, old friend," Paul said, "as you can see, my back is toward no door." "The universe is full of doors," Hawat said.

Y el Duquecito, querido Piter, el chico Paul?

The future is a thing to be shaped

Muad'dib rules everywhere, he said. Arrakis is not my destination, she insisted. Arrakis is the destination of everyone, he said.

What is happening in the universe and multiverse today is determined by the goal in the far future that has been set for the universe and the multiverse.

Neither of them had asked that this thing should be—that their destinies, their very souls, should be the sport of chance. If they could have known, they would have shunned the fearful risk. But they were allowed no voice in the matter. Why should it all be?

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath.