Frank Herbert Quotes

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.

It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.