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“Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“Captain John Sheridan: I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it.

Delenn: Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of them all. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station , and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“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.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
― Book of G'Quan

“The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“G'Kar: I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we’ve exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“G'Kar: 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.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“She’s a telepath?â€� demanded Dominic.
“And he catches up with the conversation.� I patted his knee. “Yes, she’s a telepath. Sarah reads minds. Don’t worry, she’s not reading yours.�
“It would be rude,� said Sarah. Putting her phone down, she began arranging herself carefully in the chair. “Telepathic ethics say you should never read a sentient creature’s mind without permission, provocation, or legitimate reason to fear for your life.�
“Telepaths have ethics?� Dominic’s eyes narrowed, tone and posture united to convey his disbelief.
“My mother and I do,â€� said Sarah, letting her head settle against the back of the chair. “We mostly got them from Babylon 5, but they still work.”
― Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Delenn: "The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“Elric: We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocation of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things.

John Sheridan: Such as?

Elric: The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain. How to say good-bye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor. How to be rich. How to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them. That is why we are going away—to preserve that knowledge.

Sheridan: From what?

Elric: There is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm. We would not have our knowledge lost or used to ill purpose. From this place we will launch ourselves into the stars. With luck, you will never see our kind again in your lifetime. I know you have your orders, Captain. Detain us if you wish. But I cannot tell you where we are going. I can only ask you to trust us.”
― J Michael Straczynski

“To live on as we have is to leave behind joy, and love, and companionship, because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received.”
― Lorien - Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski

“G'Kar: If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often, we assume that 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 sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search â€� who does not bring a lantern â€� sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product 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 that we are the center of the universe â€� God looks astonishingly like we do â€� or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)”
― Adrian Lamo

“We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much and the best of us is washed away.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“Unfortunately, love does not guarantee happiness, or even life.”
― Ensley F. Guffey; K. Dale Koontz;

“Lighting a candle in the darkness can be difficult, but keeping it aflame afterwards â€� that’s the eternal struggle.”
― K. Dale Koontz, A Dream Given Form: The Unofficial Guide to the Universe of Babylon 5

“She paused the image. Her fingertip traced the outline of the attacker.

“Who are you?â€� she asked the screen. “What do you want?”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“Vir: I thought the purpose of filing these reports was to provide accurate intelligence.

Londo: Oh Vir, intelligence has nothing to do with politics!”
― J. Michael Straczynski, The Babylon 5 Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 1

“Cartagia narrowed his eyes. “They seemed too good to be true. And, as we know, when something is too good to be true, it often is.”
― Al Sarrantonio, Personal Agendas

“If we are to gauge our cultural leaders by the percentage of alien thoughts they have, what percentage would you stop at?”
― Fiona Kai Avery

“Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5." Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, The Gathering”
― J Michael Straczynkski