Halo quotes

Wake me, when you need me.

I need a weapon.

Finish the fight.

This is the way the world ends.

Reclaimers, the time has come.

I don’t want to set the world on fire, I just want to start a flame in your heart.

I’ll do what I can to keep you safe.

You are all of you, vermin. Cowering in the dirt, thinking… what, I wonder? Testing your might against a being such as me?

I have made a truce with your Doomsday Machine.

You must be silenced.

What is better, a surreptitious path on a treacherous landscape or a righteous route through an unfaithful universe?

In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!

You say good will come of this, but I know better. We must find the source!

The way I see it, the Covenant need us… for something, but we’re no good to them dead.

This is not your grave, but you are welcome in it.

I will not compromise our mission for the sake of one missing soldier.

Protocol dictated my response. She had the activation index, and you were going to destroy my installation. You did destroy my installation. Now I have only one function: to help you, Reclaimer, as I always should have done.

Were it so easy…

Slip space rupture detected.

I know what you’re thinking, and it’s crazy.

It’s a one-way trip, you know.

This is the way the world ends.

A hero need not speak. When he is gone, the world will speak for him.

The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is… 42

The Dawn is our home now, and home is where you are.

This is not a covenant ship. It’s full of… it’s full of flood. Turn back!

We are dead, you and I. But soon, we both shall live.

He asked me how well I was willing to die. I told him any day now.

You are nothing but a relic from a doomed age.

I can only push the trigger so many times.

Cowards understand nothing but power.

The Mantle is our guidepost in times such as these.

I am simply a conduit within which the memories of the Prophets of old are stored.

A child who refuses to die. Truly, the Flood have blessed you with a wild heart.

You know the myth of ‘Cortana.’

You are not our beginning. You are not our end.

We had a disagreement. Take care, Arbiter. What you say is heresy!

Sometimes I wonder if you actually think, or if you just bang your head into your keyboard until words appear.

Two times, two times… two times… two times… two times… two times…

Sometimes the fire… the fire feels good. Nice to see it light up the empty sky.

When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?

The lives of billions, the sins of a galaxy, all because of you.

Despite overwhelming odds, humanity refused to submit to the first temptation.

You were weak and gods must be strong.

To war.

We make our own luck

You don’t make a promise, when you know you can’t keep it.

Pain is best teacher

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!