Dark Imperium Quotes

“The Emperor loves no one man, thought Guilliman. He cannot afford affection – that is the honest practical for the impossible task that faces the Master of Mankind. He did not love His sons, He does not love men, but He does love mankind. I find it hard to forgive Him. Did His solution have to be built on lies? Lies upon lies?”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Keep your eyes forward. Look at what is to come, he told himself. The past is dead, the present nearly so. Only in the future is there life.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Humanity is not measured on form alone, but by deeds, my lord,’ said Ventris. ‘A mortal man may be inhuman towards other men, yet I have seen xenos behave with honour and fairness when we offer them nothing but hate.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Mankind's spirit inspired Felix. These people had no special gifts, no enhancements, nothing, and yet they lived. These ordinary men and women had suffered the worst the galaxy had to throw at them. It humbled him that he would spend his life in service to them.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“If the Emperor Himself stood up, thought Guilliman, came down off His Golden Throne and proclaimed 'I am not a god!' then they would burn Him as a heretic.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“But there was also a sense of an absence in his gene-forged body that made itself known as dull ache. Guilliman called it emotional pain. After all he had seen in this new age, he remained loath to name it spiritual in nature. He was too enamoured of reason to truly believe his soul had been injured.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“The Emperor had allowed them to love Him, and to believe He loved them in return. He had not. His primarchs were weapons, that was all.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Power is corrosive, thought Calgar. It erodes respect. It erodes common sense.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“You look to Barbarus and remake it wherever you go.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Ney spoke like a man who had never been a child.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“I never wanted to be a tyrant, thought the primarch. Perhaps my father did not wish to be so either. History has roles for us that cannot be denied. We are but pieces on the board of eternity.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“What intrigued Felix was how the primarch explained his actions. Whichever he said was most important to him depended on who he was speaking to. In this way, the primarch directed the energies of his followers according to their own prejudices without actually lying to them.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“The promises of Chaos were false. There was no immortality, no freedom from suffering, no easy road to power. Their youth, their health, their vitality - all of it would have been stolen away, replaced with a life-in-death. It began with a sincere desire to do good; it ended with damnation.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Seeing Guilliman as a man perturbed Felix. The Imperium needed someone above humanity to lead them, not a man with a man's faults.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“This is I, whose preoccupation was to hurry the Great Crusade to an end so that I could get on with the business of peace!' He laughed at himself. 'Perhaps I would have failed, even if I had lived longer. These rulers who deny my seal and my right to revoke our treaties, they are not evil, they are not stupid, they are simply limited as all men are limited'.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“We constantly battle the sins of the fathers, thought Guilliman. That is no less true on an eternal scale than it is within the history of a single world. We suffer because of those that have gone before.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Now Guilliman was among the living once more, it was possible to ask him if all the words attributed to him were truly his. For the first few years, Guilliman had been in the habit of correcting his subordinates, insisting many of his supposed sayings were apocryphal, until he had given up in exasperation. He was simply not believed by most, for whom the primarch remained an ideal. They valued their preconceptions of him over the living evidence.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Humans are beings of short reach. Give them voidships, change their shape by gene-forge and augmetic, provide them with weapons of sufficient power to break a star, and the children of Old Earth are still but apes removed from the savannah.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“If rules and customs remain unbroken, Uriel, then they become meaningless – either brittle from misuse, or so strong and overwhelming that they become walls to the mind, blocking out the truth of what it is they were intended to protect.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Performing your duty is not an error, captain. I do not accept your apology, for there is no need for one.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Consideration, evaluation, action. That was his way. Roboute Guilliman was not a slave to impulse.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium