Frank Herbert Quotes

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.

If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

Every day is an adventure.