Quotes About Arrakis

#1. Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides. The

Frank Herbert

#2. Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place.

Frank Herbert

#3. We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis. She

Frank Herbert

#4. It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. - GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It

Brian Herbert

#5. Muad'dib rules everywhere," he said.
"Arrakis is not my destination," she insisted.
"Arrakis is the destination of everyone," he said.

Frank Herbert

#6. I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Jane Austen

#7. He thought: Jessica, mother of Muad'Dib and grandmother of these royal twins, returns to our planet today. Why does she end her self-imposed exile at this time? Why does she leave the softness and security of Caladan for the dangers of Arrakis?

Frank Herbert

#8. Part due to accidental circumstances - the

L.M. Montgomery

#9. God created Arrakis to train the faithful.

Frank Herbert

#10. The creature all men on Arrakis fear, you treat it like a riding animal.

Frank Herbert

#11. You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

Will Rogers

#12. Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Henry Newman

#13. But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

Stephen Greenblatt

#14. What little I had was all for you. It was you who was everybody else's. But I was only yours.

Paullina Simons

#15. No viewer could turn away from the show now. From the Gamemakers' point of view, this is the final word in entertainment.

Suzanne Collins

#16. Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.

Frank Herbert

#17. ...We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God.

Frank Herbert

#18. For the first time in months I felt my body slacken. I had been carrying myself like a gun, cocked, alert, ready for trouble, fearing it.

Jeanette Winterson

#19. If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.

Bryant McGill

#20. No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry
So my verse has
this almost imperceptible thrill
Life is sad, the world is crazy!
Not worth killing yourself for it
Not for anyone
For no love
Life goes on, indifferently!

Mario Quintana

#21. Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.

Ernest Cline

#22. We hold each other close. He feels so good. So warm. So solid. I want this moment to last forever.

Susan Ee

#23. And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.

Frank Herbert

#24. You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

Frank Herbert

#25. The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

Frank Herbert

#26. Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
- from Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib' by the Princess Irulan

Frank Herbert

#27. Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.

Brian Herbert