Quotes about Existence
To exist is to stand out, away from the background, The Preacher said. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
— Frank Herbert
Survival is staying alive one breath at a time.
— Frank Herbert
There is the difference between us," he said. "You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it.
— Frank Herbert
Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.
— Frank Herbert
She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
— Frank Herbert
What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?
— Frank Herbert
Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.
— Frank Herbert
the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience
— Frank Herbert
We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.
— Frank Herbert
Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.
— Frank Herbert
The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
— Frank Herbert
Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.
— Frank Herbert