Favourite Quotes

"Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them."
- Sibclair to Soul Hunter #2: "Soul Hunter"

"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest."
- G'Kar to Garibaldi: "Survivors"

"You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your species survive."
"We like to think so." - Neroon and Sinclair: "Legacies"

"Hello, old friend."
- Sinclair to Delenn: "The Coming of Shadows"

"Stay close to the vorlon and watch out for Shadows. They move when you're not looking at them."
- Sinclair: "The Coming of Shadows"

"There's an old saying: 'Do not try the patience of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger.'"
- Elric to Vir: "The Geometry of Shadows"

"An old friend of mine once quoted me an ancient Egyptian blessing: 'God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.'"
- Sheridan to Zeta Squadron: "A Distant Star"

"I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."
- Ivanova: "Points of Departure"

"Give me a lever big enough and I will move the world."
- Sheridan: "All Alone in the Night"


"Faith manages."
- Delenn to Lennier: "Confessions and Lamentations"

"How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his friend. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see. I've been in the service of the Vorlons for centuries, looking for you ... Diogenes with his lamp looking for a man willing to die for all the wrong reasons. At last, my job is finished. Yours is just beginning. When the darkness comes, know this: You are the right people, in the right place, at the right time."
- Sebastian to Delenn & Sheridan: "Comes the Inquisitor"

The Minbari taught me: 'Claim victory in your heart and the Universe will follow.'"
- Marcus: "Voices of Authority"

"Oh bugger, now I have to wait for someone to wake up."
- Marcus: in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark"

"I see they trained you well back home."
"Yeah, they always said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger."
"And?"
"I'm not repressed anymore."
- Lennier and Marcus: "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"

"You see, it's like I've always said: 'You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word.' Please, continue."
- Marcus to Lennier: "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"

"I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One, we die for the One."
- Marcus to Neroon: "Grey 17 is Missing"

"And so it begins."
- Kosh to Lyta: "Walkabout"

"Our thoughts form the universe, they always matter."
- G'Kar: The Hour of the Wolf

"Words have meaning and names have power. The universe begun with a word, you know. But which came first: the word or the thought behind the word?"
- Lorien: "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?"

"If the universe puts a mystery in front of us as a gift, then polightness requires that we at least try and solve it."
Delenn: "Atonement"

"Religion and War must act in the service of the people, not the other way around."
- Delenn: "Moments of Transition"

"I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal to the other."
- G'Kar: Epiphanies

"You know, the one thing in life that you can be sure about is that you are going to make mistakes."
- Garibaldi to Zack: "Epiphanies"

"Trouble will come in its own time. It always does, ... but that's tomorrow. Give me today and I will be happy."
- Sheridan: "Epiphanies"

The New Alliance would waver and crack, but in the end it will hold, because what is built endures, and what is loved endures. And Babylon 5, ... Babylon 5 endures."
- Delenn: Season 4 Epilogue, "Rising Star".

"History will attend to itself. It always does."
- Delenn: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"

"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That question baffled religious thinkers for centuries, until someone finally hit upon the answer. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? As many as want to."
- Byron: "Secrets of the Soul"

"I'm prophetic, not infallible."
- Morden: "Day of the Dead"

"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

Sheridan, "Have I told you today, how much I love you?"
Delenn, "Yes, but you may continue to repeat it for as long as you like."
Sheridan, "Oh, I plan to. Every day that I can."
- Sheridan and Delenn: "Objects at Rest"

"Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here? Where are you going?"
- Lorien: "Sleeping in Light"

"We did everything that we said we were going to do and nobody can take that away from us or this place."
- Zack: "Sleeping in Light"

"Babylon 5 was last of the Babylon stations. They would never be another. It changed the future and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one other, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely of places. Mostly, though I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us. As for Delenn, every morning for as long she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up."
- General Susan Ivanova: "Sleeping in Light" Epilogue.