Frank Herbert Quotes

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

It is impossible to do anything for anyone.

A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

You don't even live once.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

What's the bleedin' point?

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.