"Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable,
unchanging. But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern
changes. Everything around it is altered."
- Ambassador Delenn to Sinclair: "The Gathering"
"May Valen walk with you and light your way."
- Delenn: "The War Prayer"
"The third principle of sentient life is its capacity for self-sacrifice.
For a cause, a loved one, for a friend."
- Delenn to Draal: "A Voice in the Wilderness #2"
"Summoned, I come. In Valen's name I take the place that has been prepared
for me. I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey.
We stand between the darkness and the light."
- Delenn in Grey Council: "Babylon Squared"
"Faith manages."
- Delenn to Lennier: "Confessions and Lamentations"
"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any of
our races. They walked among the stars like giants, vast, timeless.
They created great empires, taught the new races, explored beyond the rim.
The oldest of the ancients are the Shadows. We have no other name for them."
- Delenn: "Matters of Honor"
"*We* are the universe, trying to understand itself."
- Delenn to Brother Edward: "Passing Through Gethsemane"
"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection.
Withdraw, ... or be destroyed." [in the White Star!]
"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."
"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari
fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives,
be somewhere else."
- Delenn and Captain Drake: "Severed Dreams"
"The council has lost its way. If it will not lead, if we have abandoned our covenant with Valen, then the council shall be broken, as was prophesied! We must stand with the others now, before it is too late! Between the worker caste and the religious caste, we control two thirds of our forces. To you, I say, listen to the voice of your conscience. Break the council and come with me. Our time of isolation is over. We move now, together, or not at all!"
- Delenn: "Severed Dreams "
"The war is never completely won. There are always new battles to fight against the darkness, only the names change."
- Delenn: "War Without End #II"
"But the heart does not recognize boundaries on a map, or wars, or political policies. The heart does as the heart does."
- Delenn: "The Illusion of Truth"
"If the universe puts a mystery in front of us as a gift, then politeness requires that we at least try and solve it."
- Delenn: "Atonement"
"Today we rebuild what was broken. Today we restore the Grey Council.
I summon the nine as Valen called them together long ago."
- Delenn: "Moments of Transition"
"Religion and War must act in the service of the people, not the other way around."
- Delenn: "Moments of Transition"
"We are there."
- Delenn: "Endgame"
"When I was first assigned to Babylon 5, I had to learn to speak several languages: Drazi, Brakiri, Centauri, and of course English - the human language of commerce. Some words have always come easier to me, than others. One of the most difficult words for me was good bye. There is no corresponding word for good bye in Minbari. All our partings contain, within them, the possibility of meeting again in other places, in other times, in other lives. So you will excuse me, if I do not say good bye. Our souls are a part of this place, our hopes, the foundation of our future. And we will pass this way again."
- Delenn: "Objects at Rest"
"I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and
shooting at one another. You would've thought sooner or later it
would go out of fashion."
- Ambassador Londo Mollari to Garibaldi: "The Gathering"
"What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?"
- Londo to Vir: "Born to the Purple"
"Did I ever tell you [Delenn] that you are very cute for a Minbari? Even
you [Garibaldi] are cute, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody's cute!
Everybody's cute! Even me. But in purple.. I'm stunning!" [collapses]
- Londo: "The Parliament of Dreams"
"These are my three wives: Pestilence, famine, and death"
- Londo: "The War Prayer"
"My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance."
- Londo to Vir: "The War Prayer"
"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station.
It's a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it."
- Londo to Garibaldi: "A Voice in the Wilderness #1"
"Now, landing thrusters ... landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a
landing thruster, which one of these would I be?"
- Londo: "A Voice in the Wilderness #2"
"Reading is no substitute for experience."
- Londo to Lennier: "The Quality of Mercy"
"Right now, I want to introduce you to the ultimate means of interstellar understanding, the Earthers call it poker."
- Londo: "Revelations"
"Vir, Intelligence has nothing to do with politics."
- Londo: "Point of No Return"
"It is very interesting poison. It comes in two parts. Both are harmless are their own, but when combined they are quite lethal. The first settles into the blood stream and the intestinal walls. It stays there for years, silent, dormant , waiting. When the other half of the poison enters the body, the two meet. Have a party in your cardio-vascular system and suddenly you are quite dead."
- Londo to Lord Refa: "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
"On my world, we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to
assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range."
- Londo to Sheridan: "No Compromises"
"No Vir, the Universe is an evil place, but at least it seems to have a sense of humor about the whole thing."
- Londo: "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
"Oh, Great Maker, I will be glad to back on Babylon 5, where it at least it was quiet!"
- Londo: "A Tragedy of Telepaths "
"Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?"
"On that, Mollari, we can at least agree."
- Londo and G'Kar: "Born to the Purple"
Londo, "There you see, I am going to live."
G'kar, "So it would seem. Well it is an imperfect universe."
Londo, "Bastard!""
G'kar, "Monster!"
Londo, "Fanatic!"
G'kar, "Murderer!"
Londo, "You are insane!"
G'kar, "And that is why we'll win."
Londo, "Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5. It will be an easy assignment. Oh, I hate my life."
G'kar, "So do I."
Londo, "Shut up!"
Londo and G'Kar: "Convictions"
"You're late!"
"No, no, no, *you're* early."
"I'm never premature."
"Oh, well, *that* is a surprise, given what I've heard. I'm sure it's a
matter of perspective, really. But for a Narn, two minutes must be a long
time, so if you go the duration, it's an accomplishment. But for the
Centauri, *hours* can go by before you even get to the good parts."
- G'Kar and Londo: "Rising Star"
"You've misspelled this. There's no 'Y' in liberties."
"Oh, go away. Repress someone else."
"As you wish."
- Londo and G'Kar: "The Paragon of Animals"
"I've always said this about you: Nothing so improves your company like
the lack of it. The less they see of you, the more they like you."
- Londo to G'Kar: "The Ragged Edge"
"Isn't it strange, G'Kar? When we first met, I had *no* power .. and all the choices I could ever want. And now I have all the power I could ever want .. and no choices at all. No choice .. at all."
- Londo to G'Kar: "The Fall of Centauri Prime"
"Vir! You are not biologically equipped to handle fast food."
"I know, I know, but it .. it tastes so great going down.
Coming up again it's not so terrific, but--"
"Well, you'll have to change that. We can't have someone in your
position eating at MacBari's, now can we?"
"Yes, but-- What position?"
- Londo and Vir: "Meditations on the Abyss"
"It's politics, Vir. Never take it personally."
- Londo to Vir: "Meditations on the Abyss"
"Have you seen the damage? We still don't have a count on all the dead and wounded. How am I supposed to live in the Royal Suite and look out at all of that?"
"You could always board up the windows."
- Londo and Vir: "The Fall of Centauri Prime"
"If kisses could kill, that one would have flattened several small towns."
- Vir to Lyndisty: "Sic Transit Vir "
"Anything I can do to help?"
"Hmm. Short of dying, no, can't think of a thing."
- Morden and Vir: "Interludes and Examinations"
"I never wanted to know the things that I know."
Vir
"No, I don't care at all for the way he looks. Pluck out his eye."
"Which one?"
"I don't know. Doesn't matter. .. *That* one."
- Cartagia and a guard: "Falling Toward Apotheosis"
"Humor is such a subjective thing, don't you think, Mollari."
- Cartagia to Londo: "The Long Night"
"Are you Ambassador G'Kar?"
"This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is Ambassador G'Kar's table. This
is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner. What part of this progression escapes you?"
- Tu'Pari and G'Kar: "The Parliament of Dreams"
"Earthers have a phrase: 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.'
I believe they stole it from us."
- G'Kar to Na'Toth: "The Parliament of Dreams"
"With luck, they may never find you, but if they do, you will know pain.."
"..and you will know fear.."
"..and then you will die. Have a pleasant flight."
- G'Kar & Na'Toth to Tu'Pari: "The Parliament of Dreams"
"Narns, Humans, Centauri .. we all do what we do for the same reason:
because it seems like a good idea at the time."
- G'Kar to Sakai: "Mind War"
"There are things in the Universe billions of years older than either of
our races. They are vast, timeless, and if they are aware of us at all,
it is as little more than ants and we have as much chance of communicating
with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried and we've learned
that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on."
- G'Kar to Sakai: "Mind War"
"They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured to know that
there are still wonders in the Universe. That we have not yet explained
everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957 and
they must walk there .. alone."
- G'Kar to Sakai: "Mind War"
"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements:
energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest."
- G'Kar to Garibaldi: "Survivors"
"The gift of time.
The gift of life.
The gift of wisdom.
The gift of light.
For these things we are thankful.
For these things we pray."
- G'Kar: "By Any Means Necessary"
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of
arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for
freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies can not
stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be *free*."
- G'Kar: "The Long, Twilight Struggle"
"They were the bad guys as you say. We were the good guys and they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor!"
- G'Kar: A Late Delivery From Avalon
"I can only wait so long."
"I thought your patience was infinite."
"Since space and time are curved, the infinite sooner or later bends
back upon itself and ends up where it begun. And so have I."
- G'Kar and Ivanova: "Ship of Tears"
"It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has it own version of these sweedish meatballs. I suspect it one of those great universial mysteries, which will either never be explained or which would drive you mad if you ever learned the truth."
- G'Kar: Walkabout
"Our thoughts form the universe, they always matter."
- G'Kar: The Hour of the Wolf
"I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal to the other."
- G'Kar: Epiphanies
"For many years all of us here have priced our good relations with Earth.
You have shown through your example that strength comes from a multitude of
voices brought together for a common cause. Humans form communities. In that
spirit we have voted to dissolve the League of Non-Aligned worlds and create
a new alliance, based on mutual co-operation and respect. An alliance, born
in the diverse voices of many worlds, joined by their desire to build a
better future and their decision to voluntarily recognize a common
authority."
- G'Kar: "Rising Star"
"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is
not narn or human or centauri or gaim or minbari. It speaks in the language
of hope."
"It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength
and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the
language of the soul. But always it is the same voice. It is the voice of
our ancestors speaking through us and the voice of our inheritors waiting to
be born. The small, still voice that says: 'We are one. No matter the blood,
no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. .. We are one.
No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter
the fear. .. We are one.' Here, gathered together in common cause, we begin
to realize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind
to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each
voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of
creation, the fire that will light our way to a better future. We are one."
"We are one."
- Sheridan / G'Kar: "The Paragon of Animals"
"Besides, everyone knows the true source of pain is neither the hand nor
the heart. It is the mouth. Is it not, Minister?"
- G'Kar to Minister Vole: "In the Kingdom of the Blind"
"It's bad luck to die on empty stomach."
- G'Kar to Londo: "In the Kingdom of the Blind"
"In the past we had little to do with other races. Evolution teaches us
that we must fight that which is different in order secure land, food,
and mates for ourselves, but we must reach a point when the nobility of
intellect asserts itself and says: No. We need not be afraid of those
we are different, we can embrace that difference and learn from it."
- G'Kar: "The Ragged Edge"
"Ah, yes, but what is truth and what is God?"
"[sigh] Truth is a .. river."
"And what is God?"
"God is .. the mouth of the river."
- Narn Acolyte and G'Kar: "Meditations on the Abyss"
"If I take a lamp and shine toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. To often we assume the light on the wall is god. But the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search, who does not bring a lantern with him, see nothing. What we perceive as God is the by produce of our search for god. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished. Not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes, we stand in front of the light and assume we are the center of the universe. God looks astonishingly like we do or turn to look at our shadow and assume all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and all it flaws. And in so doing better understand the world around us."
- G'Kar: Meditations on the Abyss
"But we can't be free, till we learn to laugh at ourselves. Once you look in the mirror and see just how foolish we can be. Laughter is inevitable. And from laughter comes wisdom."
- G'Kar: Meditations on the Abyss
"I've never understood that. Why does the universe give us puzzles with no answers?"
"Pay back, maybe?"
- G'Kar and Franklin: "The Wheel of Fire"
"We are all the sum of our tears; Too little and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there; too much, the best of us is washed away. "
- G'Kar: Objects in Motion
"You will not use my title Satai. You will address me only as Delenn.
Do you understand?"
"No, but understanding is not required, only obedience."
- Delenn and Lennier: "The Parliament of Dreams"
"Lennier, get us the hell out of here."
"Initiating 'getting the hell out of here' maneuver."
- Ivanova and Lennier: "The Hour of the Wolf"
"Woo-hoo?"
- Lennier to Sheridan: "Racing Mars"
"It is not necessary to know. It is only necessary to try."
- Lennier to Findell: "Meditations on the Abyss"
"You are ... a child of Valen."
- Dukhat, (to Delenn): "Atonement"
"You look as if you have been terrified into another and better incarnation."
- Dukhat: "Atonement"
"When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it needs to be."
- Dukhat: "Atonement"
"You have been trained to think and believe. Now put them to work."
- Dukhat: "Atonement"
"Nobody takes power. They're given power by the rest of us,
because we are stupid or afraid or both. "
- Dukhat: "Atonement"
"The third principle of sentient life is the capacity
for self-sacrifice, the conscious ability to override evolution and
self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one."
- Draal to Delenn: "A Voice in the Wilderness #1"
"To quote a human phrase, 'It gives me the screaming willies'"
- Draal: "Voices of Authority"
"Captain, we're sorry. We thought you were dead."
"I was. I'm better now."
- Drazi spokesman and Sheridan: "The Summoning"
"Every great fall begins with a single mistake."
- Drazi to Sheridan: "A Tragedy of Telepaths"
"Greetings commander."
- Kosh: "The Gathering"
"We take no interest in the affairs of others."
- Ambassador Kosh to Sinclair: "The War Prayer"
"Understanding is a three-edged sword."
- Kosh to Talia Winters: "Deathwalker"
"And these .. these phrases you keep speaking in.
They don't make any sense."
"Ah, you seek meaning?"
"Yes."
"Then listen to the music, *not* the song."
- Kosh and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker"
"The avalanche has already started.
It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
- Kosh to M'ola: "Believers"
"A herring is just a herring, but a good cigar is a Cuban."
"A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles.
Do you understand, Miss Winters?"
- Abbut and Kosh to Talia Winters: "Deathwalker"
"What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?"
"Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future."
- Talia Winters and Kosh: "Deathwalker"
"You are not ready for immortality."
- Kosh to Sinclair: "Deathwalker"
"And so it begins. You have forgotten something."
- Kosh to Sinclair: "Chrysalis"
"You have *always* been here."
- Kosh to Sheridan: "All Alone in the Night"
"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die."
- Kosh: "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
"You have a question?"
- Kosh: "Matters of Honor"
"Is there a problem?"
- Kosh: "Walkabout"
"And so it begins."
- Kosh to Lyta: "Walkabout"
"Jump! Jump, now!"
- Kosh to Sheridan: "Z'ha'dum"
