Babylon 5 - Season4 Memorable Quips and Quotes

No Surrender, No Retreat

Episode 1
The Hour of the Wolf

Her heart has been pierced and her spirit has poured out through the wound. She blames herself. It is foolish, It is destructive, it is human. Fasting, praying and waiting.
The issues before us are extremely important. All of us will work together. You can only survive it. To serve our people. This must come first.
Flesh is transitory (self healing in the master studies), flesh is a prison, flesh is an instrument, flesh can be replaced (is renewing itself every moment).
He has opened an unexpected door. (For you to respect me is irrelevant. I don't require it)
Our thoughts form the universe. They always matter. I came here to remind myself of his Soul.
It is strategically wise to make alliances that might serve you. Some are always sacrificed for the greater good. It'll all work out in the end.
You are free.. do not interfere (take license). Good evening my friends, you should know, today has been a very good day.
The hour of the wolf. A time in the morning, all you can see the ways that your life could have gone. All you can hear is the sound of your own heart.

Episode 2
Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi

Try and find something useful to do.

Lorien and Sheridan's discussions:

Who are you? What do you want? What are your choices. If one is a prisoner of love, is one is to escape to solitude? If one is a prisoner of joy, is one to escape to sadness? Words have meaning and names have power. The universe began with a word, you know ( a breath) But which came first, the word or the thought behind the word (same thing to me) You can't create language without a thought and you can't conceive a thought without language. (the soul speaks in dreams). So which created language and thus created the universe? Consider the larger issues. It's a dangerous question and it's never easy to answer. Now, what you are... you are dead. The sun has risen and set 9 times since you arrived, are you hungry, are you thirsty, does blood still flow through your veins there's no pulse! Because my reluctant friend, you are quite, quite dead...Nothing goes on forever, entropy consumes all. If you have not hit bottom, you are still falling and this is a dream. Or, you are in-between (Lorien caught him) You are in between moments.

When we are born, we are allocated a finite number of seconds, Each tick of the clock slices off a piece of us. Tick a possibility for joy is gone, tock, a careless word ends one path, opens another. Tick tock tick tock always running out of time, yours is almost used up. You're between seconds, lost in the infinite possibilities between tick and tock. Tick, you're alive, tock, you're dead. It was a good life but a short one. Here between the moments we have all the time in the world.

I've come full circle; don't we all. You've been here longer than I have, there must be some way out of here. Alive-dead. Your only way out is to surrender to tock. Yes, of course I care. It's a terrible thing when your children fight. I warned them but they didn't listen, they never listen. Metaphorically speaking, those who came after me. Children, younger siblings. I am the first one. You know a way out of here. I am waiting for someone to talk to. They come back here, because I am here and they are showing respect. They don't understand. We all have secrets and surprises. Did you know you have a vorlon inside of you. At least a part of one. I think I met it once, long ago. He almost certainly knew I was here. They can break off pieces of their consciousness and put it into others. They can travel through the galaxies, using them as their eyes and ears. Kosh is in you. He's part of the problem, and you're the other part. You're both clinging to life. Both afraid to let go. You must both lay down and surrender to tock. You can't turn away from death simply because you're afraid of what might happen without you. That's not enough. You're not embracing life, you're fleeing death, so, you're caught in between, unable to go forward or backward. Your friends need what you can give when you are no longer afraid. When you know who you are and why you are and what you want. When you are no longer looking for reasons to live. But can simply be. Or, you will be caught forever in between. Step into the abyss and let go. It's easy to find something worth dying for, do you have anything worth living for. I cannot create life, but I can breathe on the remaining embers. Hope is all we have.

Sleep now I will watch you and catch you if you fall.
(Lorien stayed in between life and death until he found one like himself, mature enough to carry on in the universe as a leader and one respected by others who also respects others... Lorien is both Vorlon and Shadow, asking both questions. Use the state of timelessness in meditation and prayer to recreate a new world for yourself. I asked GOD who am I and why am I here and I received an answer.)

Episode 4
Falling Towrd Apotheosis

I did all I could to help him. I cannot create life. I can extend, enhance. There is no magic, nothing spiritual about it, only the application of energies healing and rebuilding cells. I did the best that I could. I gave him back a portion of his life, only a portion. Barring injury and illness, he has 20 years to live. Then one day, he will simply stop. I knew there would be a price. It's a good run. It's twenty more years than I would have had (recovered from death). I want you to know that whatever time I have left, I want to spend it with you.

Episode 5
The Long Night

I need you to finish what you started.
We need everything we can get.
One perfect memory to take with her.
Make me a promise, don't protect me, don't hold me back.
You are a good friend to me and I am proud of you. Before you leave, I wanted to express that to you.

Planet Killers
I do not know if this has been depicted in movies or sci-fi TV shows, but I first saw through my 3rd eye, a planet killer that disintegrated planets when discharged. Below is an article that discusses planet killing from a perspective that B5 uses.

Knowledge Book (KB) Page 588 During this period of transition, we are obliged to convey to you all the truths. Events occurring in your planet at present and which will occur are not without a cause at all. Each event is a total of chains dependent on a chain of cause and effect. Even though it is not desired, natural catastrophes will increase in your planet region by region. The reason why the ozone layer has been opened is because all terrestrials are obliged to be habituated to cosmic beams. Nuclear accidents are each a radioactive engraftment. The violet radiation beyond ozone are the conveyance of the information beyond this dimension to you and are the reinforcements of resistance power in accordance with the ordinance of graduation. Everything occurs naturally by natural methods, by the high influences of unveiled energy layers. Because in case your planet does not receive these supernatural energies, it can be transformed into a sand cloud and can not enter the intense energy tunnel it is attracted by at the moment. Salvation of your planet is possible only by its accumulating these energies in its entire constitution. All these things will cause you to attain a totalized resistance during the entrance into that intense atmosphere. For this reason your planet, together with the totality of living entities on it, is attaining a resistance penetrating through all its cells, being subjected to a strong cosmic current shower by a method we call the engraftment method.

Episode 6
Into the fire

There is time for one more.
This is the last. A brilliant strategy.
A crucible to force out the truth.
What does your heart tell you.
We were born naturally immortal.
To appreciate life, for there to be change and growth, life was shortened. To live on is to leave behind joy, and companionship, we learn that these are transitory things, they do not last.
Embrace that remarkable illusion.
It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received.
'Ah Hell' means continuous fire in Minbari.(firing weapons)
You must understand your way out of this.
Hoping the Truth will set us free.
(Jesus said 'no nukes in space' in 1987.)
Note: It seems that a race becomes diverse in mixing its culture with others and then with that breed, again returns to isolation with only a few of them acculturating with other races but no longer mixing together. First Ones integrate and then segregate again.
A I taught you, then stepped aside, now you must do the same. Our age is past. This belongs to the younger ones. They have learned to stand on their own. They have learned to understand. Time to let them go. I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now, I will go with you beyond the rim. And we will see again, all those who went ahead of us. All those who we have missed for so long. You will never be alone.
(Jesus: when you stand on the mount of transfiguration, you will see all that that have achieved before you.)
I waited a long time for someone to find me.
This is yours now, and you have an obligation to do as we have done (King Solomon) to teach the races that will follow you and when your time comes, as ours has, to step aside and allow them to grow in their own destiny
(Mary's Message to the World - set your children free and do not make them robots of yourselves).
I look forward to the day when your people join us beyond the rim.

Episode 7
Epiphanies (a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something (2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) : an illuminating discovery b : a revealing scene or moment)

Jubilation
What it cost us and how much work is still ahead of us. Then again, embrace the moment, in the end, it is all we have.
Finding our own way and doing what we think is right.
Welcome home.
It put me in the right place. I'm delirious with joy. It proves if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. It just doesn't do it in the way you expect. For this goal, I'd go through far worse. That's why I came to you. Through your friendship, you became the one thing outside my own people, that I could care enough about to take that risk, and in so doing, to help my own people more than I had dreamed possible.
Wetware technology can be removed by stimulating and accelerating cellular growth in the areas of the brain beneath the implants that will eventually push the implants out of the brain and other places where the implants are attached: cloning cells .
Delusions of adequacy. (ha ha)
Beyond the call of duty.
You're a problem solver (a trouble shooter).
Z'ha dum destroyed.
Planet not completely bereft of energy (life). It left an aura of energy that continued to eat the elements until it dissipated into space at which point, as the last planet that was destroyed, the universe rolled up into the void and all elements became absent again as at the beginning.

Episode 8
The Illusion of Truth

I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
We have an open-door policy.
Their agendas: You try not to let it get in the way of the truth. Telling just as much truth as I can without getting into trouble, (appearing seditious)
There is no time limit on serving the needs of our people.
Help ease his mind.
I am happy to serve.

Episode 9
Atonemen
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Zack's new uniform.
Dreaming G'Kar's new prosthetic eye. I've peered into my own soul more then enough lately (too much introspection.)
We are survivors, always have been. (don't worry).
My place is at your side. I have pledged myself to your side, come fire, or storm or darkness or death.
Can understanding be a greater danger?
They're waiting for us.
Stand before your clan.
I must follow the calling of my heart.
I will abide by the decision of my clan.
We help you to understand yourself and if it is truly the right thing for you to do. That is what you must discover.
Begin by purifying your thoughts.
I was an acolyte, I was terrified.
I am alive (Rondel),
The dreaming takes us forward and the dreaming takes us back.
Do you consider yourself their equal in wisdom, judgment, maturity and intelligence. You have been trained to think and believe.
The greatest enemy is one you do not know. You can predict the actions of those you know, The one you cannot predict is the one who can harm you.
If we do not know them, then they're a mystery. If the universe puts a mystery in front of us as a gift, politeness requires that we at least try to solve it.
You'd like to know, to simply understand.
The simplest of joys, that of a child and a closed box - curiosity.
Authority should never be used as a club to pound others into submission.
Your spirit is strong.
I suspect the journey will be a curious and fascinating one, it always is.
Thanks to you, everything I am, everything I shall ever be, I owe to you.
There was a purpose in my selection, your heritage.
There is nothing to fear in the dreaming, only that which we take with us. (It is the same for those entering the 4th dimension.)
Note: Sinclair is Delenn's great-great-great-great... grandfather. In this timeline, they work together as friends achieving a common goal and are closer to the same age.

Episode 10
Racing Mars

I'm a war hero and no body knows about it?!?
Take it slow and easy.
He has to find his own way and so do you.
Preparation and mutual understanding.
Discovering one another's centers of pleasure.
It is done with great deliberation, prayerfully with respect and meditation. It is good for us to know all we can about one another, should we continue the joining of our hearts and our blood (Soul).
The alpha and omega of my soul.

Episode 11
Lines of communication

It pleases me that you care, but never forget what I was, who I am, and what I can do.
You have a face people trust. Solid reliable; Information is like gold.
Set aside all differences and focus on what needs to be done now.
Right now you need all the allies you can get. Trust and be patient.
We all have our responsibilities.

Episode 12
Conflicts of interest

Now, we re going to tell the truth, you cannot kill the truth and the truth is back in business.

Episode 13
Rumors, Bargains and lies

A thousand years of peace.
The great crystal spires that sighed music whenever the wind blew.
Once he left us, the future became fluid.
Treating them like honored guests after all they've done to us.
Your actions have always been motivated by one desire: to do what is right for our people. What matters now is the future. I'd rather have someone who opposed me out of an honest belief in rightness than someone who supports me because it is expected or required.
I've never questioned your loyalty.
Not denying it doesn't make it true any more than not confirming it makes it false.
A light for my footsteps, never asking, only giving.
Thank you for taking care of him.
They will understand eventually.
His actions have honored us all.
Belief in the strength and the wisdom of our caste.
She does not walk in the same world that I walk in, she does not see he same world that you and I see. In her world, we are better than we are. We care more than we care. We act toward each other with compassion. I much prefer her world to that of my own and I will not allow anything to threaten that.

Episode 14
Moments of Transition

Restless Nights: Garibaldi and Sheridan
Leadership and action are necessary.
Value life above all things.
Life and death are simply two possible consequences, both equal, neither valued nor feared above the other. For a warrior, death is simply the release from our obligation.
"Humanity is my business", Marley to Scrooge, Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
A delicate way to say this.

Episode 15
No surrender No retreat

Tolerate this behavior.
Humanitarian aid.

Episode 21
Rising Star

In his heart, he never left us.
Remind us of that which brings us together. Come together in a new spirit of cooperation, for we are all children of Earth.
Strength comes from a multitude of voices, brought together in a common cause. A new alliance based on mutual cooperation and respect. Born in the diverse voices of many worlds joined by their desire to build a better future.
Global parity – work to create peace, encourage better relations, help less advanced societies improve their conditions, and privileged free trade and work to create peace, dedicated to the higher principles of duty and honor. It will signal a new age of peace and prosperity.
How to use gravity without rotation which is slower and less efficient.
We are better together than apart.
You do not make history, you can only hope to survive it.
What is built in love endures.

Episode 22
The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Periodicity through a million years. We know the Drakh creatures and the Earthlings with the Minbari, may be the new Vorlons and Shadows for the younger generations. We do not know if they will breed wars based on ideology.

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