Quotes about Life
Life improves the capacity to sustain life [...] Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.
— Frank Herbert
life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
— Frank Herbert
Love, that is what you understand, she said. Love. And that is all of it. [...] You have faith in life, Hwi said. I know that the courage of love can reside only in this faith.
— Frank Herbert
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be started this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
— Frank Herbert
Mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.
— Frank Herbert
We are one life reaching out into a dark future.
— Frank Herbert
You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.
— Frank Herbert
In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.
— Frank Herbert
If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
— Frank Herbert
When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.
— Frank Herbert
Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.
— Frank Herbert
You can say to yourself, "Yes, I see how such a thing may be." But when you look inward and confront the raw force of your own life unshielded, you see your peril. You see that this could overwhelm you. The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.
— Frank Herbert