Midnight on the Firing Line
"My father always told me: 'The best way to understand someone is to fight him, make him angry. That's when you see the real person.'"
Sinclair to Ivanova

"Commander, please. On the issue of galactic peace, I am long past innocence and fast approaching apathy. It's all a game - a paper fantasy of names and borders. Only one thing matters, Commander. Blood calls out for blood."
Londo to Sinclair

Soul Hunter
"It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then... it's over."
"Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human. We'd still make the same mistakes."
Franklin and Ivanova

Born to the Purple
"We Centauri live our lives for appearances: position, status, title. These are the things by which we define ourselves. But when I look beneath the mask I am forced to wear, I see only emptiness."
Londo

Infection
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes... and all of this... all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
Sinclair

Mind War
"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

"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.
G'Kar

The War Prayer
"My shoes are too tight."
"Excuse me?"
"Something my father said. He was old, very old at the time. I went into his room and he was, sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong and he said, 'My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten have to dance'. I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance."
Londo and Vir

And the Sky Full of Stars
"Everyone lies Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they did not do. The guilty lie because they don't have any other choice."
Sinclair

Believers
"The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."
Kosh

"'Sure' is for people with nothing on the line."
Garibaldi

"Who asked you to play God ?"
"Every damn patient who comes through that door, that's who! People come to doctors because they want us to be gods. They want us to make it better... or make it not so. They want to be healed and they come to me when their prayers aren't enough."
Sinclair and Franklin

"May god save us from false religion."
"What makes a religion false? If any religion is right then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them."
"What if there is no god at all?"
"Is that what you believe?"
"I believe in saving lives. Without life the question is meaningless."
"But life has to be more then a pulse beat. What we hold sacred gives our life meaning."
Franklin and Sinclair

Survivors
"Seventeen years ago we both died inside. But somehow we survived. For better or worse, that's all we can do. Survive, and maybe one day, forget how much it can hurt to be human."
Garibaldi to Lianna Kemmer

By Any Means Necessary
"We all believe in something greater than ourselves, even if it's just the blind forces of chance."
"Chance favors the warrior."
G'Kar and Na'Toth

Grail
"It doesn't matter that his Grail may or may not exist, what matters is that he strives for the perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never wavered a lost faith."
Delenn about Aldous Gajic

A Voice in the Wilderness I
"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

"Without the hope that things will get better, that our inheritors will know a world that is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless, and evolution is vastly overrated."
Delenn

The Quality of Mercy
"Reading is no substitute for experience."
Londo

Chrysalis
"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors."
Londo

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