Death Quote by Frank Herbert — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead”

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

“I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.”

“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”

“The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted.”

“Time erodes us all.”

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”

“Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.”

“That's a nice song," said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.”

“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”