Dune Messiah Quotes

“When oracles failed, one turned to real spies and physical powers.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“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!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Chani”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Unde este substanța, într-un univers alcătuit din evenimente? (...) Există vreun răspuns final? Nu generează fiecare soluție noi întrebări?”
― Frank Herbert, Mântuitorul Dunei

“Carnea cedează, gândi el. Eternitatea își ia înapoi ceea ce-i aparține. Trupurile noastre au agitat, o vreme, apele. O vreme, am fost intoxicați de dragoste de viață, de dragoste de sine, o vreme am nutrit câteva idei stranii, înainte de a ne supune instrumentelor Timpului.”
― Frank Herbert, Mântuitorul Dunei

“Există multe feluri de a vedea și multe feluri de a fi orb. (...) Ce simțuri ne lipsesc de nu putem vedea o altă lume în jurul nostru?”
― Frank Herbert, Mântuitorul Dunei

“Oricare ar fi gradul de exotism atins de civilizație, oricare ar fi dezvoltările existenței și ale societății sau complexitatea interfeței om/mașină, există interludii de putere solitară, în cursul cărora evoluția omenirii și viitorul ei depind de acțiunile relativ simple ale anumitor indivizi.”
― Frank Herbert, Mântuitorul Dunei

“Litany Against Fear: “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear . . .”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Data,” Paul said. “I need more data.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Paul felt that he waited for some private signal from his sister. It could be any action or word, something of wizardry and mystical processes, an outward streaming that would fit him like an arrow into a cosmic bow. This instant lay like quivering mercury in his awareness.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“out of prayers older than Adam,”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Every aspect of surrounding events fitted a present which paralyzed him. He felt chained to a future which, exposed too often, had locked onto him like a greedy succubus. Tight dryness clogged his throat. Had he followed the witchcall of his own oracle, he wondered, until it'd spilled him into a merciless present.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“I must have a child,” she said.
He shook his head from side to side.
“I must have my way!” she snapped. “If need be, I’ll find another fatherfor my child. I’ll cuckold you and dare you to expose me.”
“Cuckold me all you wish,” he said, “but no child.”
“How can you stop me?”
With a smile of utmost kindness, he said: “I’d have you garroted, if it came to that.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“It was finite, of course, a brief spasm when measured against eternity, but beyond lay horrors to overshadow anything in the past.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“It is said one can always tell an aristocrat: he reveals only those of his vices which will make him popular.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“He wanted to flee from his own mind. It was a beast come to devour him!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Behind any use of power over another
the ultimate assumption remains: ‘I feed on your energy.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“And he thought: Growing older is to grow more wicked.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Awareness turned over at the thought of all those stars above him—an infinite volume. A man must be half mad to imagine he could rule even a teardrop of that volume.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“The dark rectangle of a doorway appeared on his right - black in black: Otheym's house, Fate's house, a place different from the ones around it only in the role Time had chosen for it. It was a strange place to be marked down in history.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“They wouldn’t understand. In the desert, they were endlessly desert. Growing things performed no green ballet for them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“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.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“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, Dune Messiah

“There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers,” Paul said. “Nothing. Nothing can be done.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“What was it the pilgrims sought? Paul wondered. They said they came to a holy place. But they must know the universe contained no Eden source, no Tupile for the soul. They called Arrakis the place of the unknown where all mysteries were explained. This was a link between their universe and the next. And the frightening thing was that they appeared to go away satisfied…. What do they find here? Paul asked himself. (Dune Messiah Page 82)”
― FRANK HERBERT, Dune Messiah

“Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: ‘Who will exercise the power?’ Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“O poder costuma isolar aqueles que o detêm em demasia. Por fim, acabam perdendo o contato com a realidade... e tombam.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“was”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Can you collect chaos?” the ghola asked. “We Zensunni say: ‘Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering.’ What can you gather without gathering yourself?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah