Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.