Dune Quotes by Frank Herbert

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

‘Because fear kills everything,’ Mo had once told her. ‘Your mind, your heart, your imagination.’ —CORNELIA FUNKE, Inkheart

“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero,” his father said.

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

‘Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.’ ” I laughed and picked up the quote where she’d left off. “ ‘I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.’ ” “ ‘And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path,’ ” she continued. “ ‘Where the fear has gone there will be