Frank Herbert Quotes

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

At my age flowers scare me.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.