Dune Chronicles 01. Dune

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.

‘I never knew the city man could be trusted completely,’ Stilgar said.
‘I was a city man myself once,’ Paul said.
Stilgar stiffened. His face grew dark with blood. ‘Muad’Dib knows I did not mean—’
‘I know what you meant, Stil. But the test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does. These city people have Fremen blood. It’s just that they haven’t yet learned how to escape their bondage. We’ll teach them.’

I’m the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me-all bearing for someone else to pick.

"A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful," Hawat had said.

“Humans are almost always lonely.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

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.”

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is

There’s a wife, then?”
“There is not, nor has there ever been. I am the Duke’s only…companion, the mother of his heir-designate.”