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

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

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

“Beginnings are such delicate times.”

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

“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”

“My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!”

“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious. It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand was open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's. Strike, Shadow, strike! And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal.”

“Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.”

“One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.”

“When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.”

“If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.”