Londo Mollari quotes from Babylon 5

Londo

My people...we have a way, you see. We know how, and sometimes even when, we are going to die. Comes in a dream. In my dream, I am an old man, it's twenty years from now, and I am dying. My hands wrapped around someone's throat, and his around mine. We have squeezed the life out of each other. The first time I saw G'Kar, I recognized him as the one from the dream. It will happen. Twenty years from now, we'll die with our hands around each other's throats.[N]

Londo

The Council can go to hell! And the emergency session can go to hell! And you, Vir, you can go to hell too--I would not want you to feel left out.

Londo

Blood calls out for blood.

Londo

What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?

Londo

[to Adira] We Centauri live our lives for appearances, position, status, title. These are the things by which we define ourselves. But when I look beneath the mask I am forced to wear, I see only emptiness. And then I think of you, and then I say...to Hell with appearances.

Londo

Something my father said. He was old, very old at the time. I went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance." I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.

Londo Mollari

Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it.

Londo

There comes a time when you look into the mirror, and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors.

Londo Mollari

There, you see! One deserts his post without any explanation, the other one picks the most breathtakingly inconvenient moment possible to explore new career options, like becoming a butterfly!

Londo

Good, Vir--you're sobering up! I can see the synapses beginning to fire behind your eyes! A frightening sight, I might add.

Londo Mollari

"The Minbari put great emphasis on art, literature, and music." Yes, but say instead they are decadent people interested only in the pursuit of...of dubious pleasures. The dubious part is very important. It doesn't mean anything, but it scares people every time.

Londo Mollari

[his last words, in a glimpse of the future] We have unfinished business between us, G'Kar. Let us make an end of it quickly, before it stops me. I am as tired of my life as you are.

Londo Mollari

He played me! He played me like a PUPPET!

Londo Mollari

On my world, we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range.

Londo Mollari

Do you know what this is? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes that says, "Hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea."