Babylon 5/Quotes

"I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. It began in the Earth year 2257, with the last of the Babylon stations located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form. A dream of a galaxy without war, where species could live side-by-side in mutual respect. A dream that was endangered as never before by one man on a mission of destruction. Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story."

—Londo Mollari, "The Gathering" (First lines of the Pilot Movie)

"Sooner or later everyone comes to Babylon 5."

—Jeffrey Sinclair, "The Gathering"

"...and because I have poisoned your drink."

—Londo Mollari

"It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?"

—Lorien, "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?"

"Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here? Where are you going?"

—Lorien

After hearing the dying words of the Centauri emperor
Refa: What did he say?
Londo: He said,"Continue. Take my people back to the stars."
...
Refa: What did he really say?

Londo: He said we are both damned.

—"The Coming of Shadows"

"I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and put it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come at too high a price"

—Vir Cotto, "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"

"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There 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 care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope .. that there can always be new beginnings .. even for people like us."

—Ivanova "Sleeping in Light", (Last lines of the series)

"This is how the world ends, swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time."

—Unknown Ranger, "Deconstruction of Falling Stars", (Chronologically last line of the series)

You have a chance few others will ever have, Mollari. You still have three opportunities to avoid the fire that waits for you at the end of your journey. You have already wasted two others. You must save the eye that does not see. You must not kill the one who is already dead. And at the last, you must surrender yourself to your greatest fear, knowing that it will destroy you. Now if you have failed all the others, that is your final chance for redemption.

—Morella , Point of No Return