'Dune' Quotes

Dune was a famous science fiction novel, published in 1965. Frank Herbert received the Nebula Award and Hugo Award. Here are a few quotes from the novel.

• "And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. he passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke."
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Part 1
  
  
• "Hawat tried to swallow in a dry throat. Her command had been regal, peremptory - uttered in a tone and manner he had found completely irresistible. His body had obeyed her before he could think about it. Nothing could have prevented his response - not logic, not passionate anger ... nothing. to do what she had done spoke of a sensitive, intimate knowledge of the person thus commanded, a depth of control he had not dreamed possible."
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Part 1
  
  
• "The spice changes anyone who gets this much of it, but thanks to you, I could bring the change to consciousness. I don't get to leave it in the unconscious where its disturbance can be blanked out. I can see it."
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Part 1
  
  
• "Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Part 2
  
  
• "'I said squeeze, Nephew, not exterminate. Don't waste the population, merely drive them into utter submission. You must be the carnivore, my boy.' He smiled, a baby's expression in the dimple-fat face. 'A carnivore never stops. Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling it hunger, by the throat crying its thirst. You must be always hungry and thirsty.' The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. 'Like me.'"
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Book 2
  
  
• "Paul returned, took up the pack, led the way down to the first spreading dune where he stopped and listened as his mother came up behind him. He heard her soft progress and the cold single-grain dribbles of sound - the desert's own code spelling out its measure of safetly."
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Book 2
  
  
• "He stepped out onto the windward face of the due, following the curve of it, moved with a dragging pace.."
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Book 2
  
  
• "Back to her from the inner cave's shadows came a whispered response of many voices: 'Their works have been overturned.'"
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Book 2
  
  
• "'Do you know so little of my son?' Jessica whispered. 'See that princess standing there, so haughty and confident. They say she has pretensions of a literary nature. Let us hope she finds solace in such things; she'll have little else.' A bitter laugh escaped Jessica. 'Think on it, Chani: that princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness form the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.'"
  - Frank Herbert, Dune, Part 3