Quote

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Frank Herbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
Franklin Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
Jr.
Thrive
Mortals
Terror
Beginning
Demise
Learn
Suspect
Ends
Mortality
Suspects
Mortal

More quotes by Frank Herbert

Image
Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
Frank Herbert
Image
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
Frank Herbert
Image
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
Frank Herbert
Image
The flesh surrenders itself. 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
Image
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
Frank Herbert
Image
Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.
Frank Herbert
Image
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
Frank Herbert
Image
The real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Frank Herbert
Image
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
Frank Herbert
Image
You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
Frank Herbert
Image
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.
Frank Herbert
Image
We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
Frank Herbert
Image
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
Frank Herbert
Image
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.
Frank Herbert
Image
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
Frank Herbert
Image
We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?
Frank Herbert
Image
Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy
Frank Herbert
Image
Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.
Frank Herbert
Image
Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.
Frank Herbert
Image
Death makes a prophet's voice louder.
Frank Herbert