Dune Quotes

Ghanima: He runs and runs and runs. And when he's exhausted himself, he returns to me, puts his head in my lap and asks me to help him find a way to die.
Farad'n Corrino: But why does he want to die?
Ghanima: To save himself from the sacrifices he must make, sacrifices for the future of us all
Farad'n Corrino: Then there is a place for me in this future?
Ghanima: Your blood was spared the day Leto came back to me.
Farad'n Corrino: What of our marriage then?
Ghanima: [Ghani turns around] As my mother was not wife, you shall never be husband.
Farad'n Corrino: Politics.
Ghanima: Politics. But in time, there my be love, which is more then my brother will have. [Ghani looks out into the desert]
Ghanima: One of us had to accept the agony. He was always the stronger. History is written on the sands of Arrakis. A chapter has ended, swept away by the whirlwind. One door has closed but another has opened and on the other side... our future.

Movie: Dune
Guildmaster: We foresee a slight problem within House Atreides. Paul, Paul Atreides.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: You mean of course Duke Leto, his father?
Guildmaster: I mean Paul Atreides. We want him killed. I did not say this. I am not here.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: I understand.

Movie: Dune
Leto: [tearing] How many nights... I have sat on Dune, just like this, imagining a night, just like this, with... with my father. Just the two of us... talking and laughing. And how many nights I have gone to sleep on the cold floor of the sietch, dreaming of his arms around me, sheltering me from everything I was afraid of, everything I could not understand!
The Preacher: [pause] Are you still a good fremin?
Leto: Yes.
The Preacher: Then will you permit a blind man to go out into the desert, and find peace on his own terms?
Leto: Not yet.

Movie: Dune
Paul: Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arakeen air.

Movie: Dune
The Baron's Doctor: [treating Baron Harkonnen] Put the pick in there, Pete, and turn it 'round real neat.

Movie: Dune