Warhammer Quotes

“Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn."

"That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The First Heretic

“So I fight for a Father who I never loved, against a brother that I did. I defend an empire that never wanted me against an army that would have taken me in a heartbeat.”
― Chris Wraight, The Path of Heaven

“The war is over, Diocletian. Win or lose, Horus has damned us all. Mankind will share in his ignorance until the last man or woman draws the species’ last breath. The warp will forever be a cancer in the heart of all humans. The Imperium may last a hundred years, or a thousand, or ten thousand. But it will fall, Diocletian. It will fall. The shining path is lost to us. Now we rage against the dying of the light.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Master of Mankind

“And in a sunless realm, the sun rose at last.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Master of Mankind

“You let the city burn so that you would have light to load your guns by.”
― Joshua Reynolds, Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix

“I wanted their stories to be a reminder that, no matter what insignia the behemoths may wear, or what philosophy they may spout, a bully is a bully, and no matter how much they beat you down, as long as you've got one finger left, you can still poke the bastards in the eye.
-Blackhearts: Author's Introduction: A Finger In The Eye: By Nathan Long”
― Nathan Long, Blackhearts: The Omnibus

“It takes a vast amount of self control to be this dangerous.”
― Dan Abnett, Prospero Burns

“...When the clarion call is sounded,
I will ride out and fight in the name of liege and Lady,
Whilst I draw breath the lands bequeathed
unto me will remain untainted by evil.
Honour is all. Chivalry is all...”
― Anthony Reynolds, Warhammer: Bretonnia

“...I set down my lance, symbol of duty. I spurn those whom I love.
I relinquish all, and take up the tools of my quest.
No obstacle will stand before me. No plea for help shall find me wanting. No moon will look upon me twice lest I be judged idle.
I give my body, heart and soul to the Lady whom I seek...”
― Anthony Reynolds, Warhammer: Bretonnia

“...That which is sacrosanct I shall preserve.
That which is sublime I will protect.
That which threatens, I will destroy.
For my holy wrath will know no bounds...”
― Anthony Reynolds, Warhammer: Bretonnia

“Las palabras moldean el pensamiento, remueven los sentimientos y accionan las fuerzas. Matan y reviven, corrompen y curan.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“People die. Times end. Suffering and war circle into being like the rains of autumn and the winds of spring. You know this. We did not, and do not, bring evil into these realms. It is already here. How many cities had you burned before you took this penitent path? How much blood have you seen our enemies spill? How much suffering fills life without the True Gods ever lifting a finger?”
― John French, Tower of Empty Mirrors

“There it was again, the treasonous little notion Ulienne couldn’t quite shake. Horus was a hero, the Warmaster of the Imperium, the pacifier of the galaxy. Of course she’d followed him. The Legio Audax had willingly worn his colours and cast their fate with his. But what would be left after this war? What would be left of Terra and the armies fighting to take it?
Surely even now, quiescent alien kingdoms at the Imperium’s edges were reawakening, daring to cast jealous eyes at the worlds they’d lost in the Great Crusade. Would there be enough of the Warmaster’s hosts left to hold the Imperium in its entirety? And what would those hosts look like, with all order and discipline and humanity raked out of them? The Legiones Astartes were already blood-maddened and fighting by the side of those… those things. The regiments of Imperial Army wearing the Warmaster’s Eye were no better. Ulienne Grune didn’t want peace. Peace was boring. Peace was for the weak. She wanted wars she could win.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Echoes of Eternity

“That is the best way to honour your fallen, by living on, and giving what you can to see civilisation rise again across all these lands.”
― Andy Clark, First Mark

“We are mortals of dust and clay but some higher sickness within us worships the narcotic transcendence of violence.”
― Noah Van Nguyen, Godeater's Son

“Dat's an ork,' Wazzock said, with feeling.
'Well, obviously dat's an ork,' Mogrot replied. 'He ain't a zoggin' squiggoth, is 'e?'
'Nah, I mean dat is an ork,' Wazzock said. 'Dat's an ork wot knows where 'e's goin'.”
― Mike Brooks, Brutal Kunnin'

“Whoo'za good squig?' Ufthak asked Princess, as the squig bounded up to him. 'Izzit yoo?' Apparently it was, because Princess squealed raucously, so Ufthak tossed it a humie arm that seemed mostly meat, and it crunched it down gleefully.”
― Mike Brooks, Brutal Kunnin'

“There's more than skin a baby”
― William King, Gotrek & Felix: The Third Omnibus

“There's more than one way to skin a baby”
― William King, Gotrek & Felix: The Third Omnibus

“Readers familiar with role-playing games, such as Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer, will enjoy reading about grisly battles and learning the complex, unfolding rules of the Lands of Amun.”
― Kirkus Reviews

“His fingers scuttled across the throne's haptic surfaces, adjusting, deleting, moving, impelling.

Writing history, touch by touch.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“Would he make one last command stroke, and know it was done, and only then, look up and see the reality he had wrought?”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“Far too many stories, a million of them, all destined to be lost, for only the last line of the book matters. '

'Then we had better make sure we're the ones who write it,' said Rann.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“I am nothing, and my nothingness gives me great value.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“But duty is cold... It serves its purpose. It has never filled the hollowness inside me. I was born hollow.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“If a supernatural darkness exists, then a supernatural light must exist also...”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“It becomes hard to trust as brothers, those you have seen capable of unbridled savagery.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“The insane roar of it, the thunder, sounded like the howl of a tormented god.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“And there it teetered, on the brink of loss and collapse, for seconds as dense and heavy as centuries.”
― Dan Abnett, Saturnine

“+We suffer because it is the sad but necessary consequence of our ability to prevail.+”
― Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume I