Frank Herbert Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• 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

  Love Life, Self, Ideas

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.107, Penguin

• Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

  Frank Herbert

  Blood, Water, Politics

• Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Teaching, Law

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.330, Penguin

• Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

  Frank Herbert

  Water, Swim, Survival

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.272, Penguin

• Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Water, World

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.114, Penguin

• A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Water, Flesh

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.191, Penguin

• The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

  Frank Herbert

  Oil, Water, Scarcity

  "Dune Genesis". Essay in "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 72, July 1980.

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