Paul Atreides Quotes

“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?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Frica e ucigaşul minţii. Frica este moartea cea-mică, aducătoare a anihilării complete. Voi înfrunta frica. O voi lăsa să treacă peste mine şi prin mine. Şi după ce va fi trecut, mă voi întoarce şi voi privi în urma ei. Pe unde a trecut frica, nu va mai fi nimic. Numai eu voi rămîne.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not... yet, I occurred.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“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.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“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

“He began to realize that there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace - no remains, nothing, and an entire planet for a tomb.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah