Delenn quotes from Babylon 5

Delenn

We've come at a bad time, haven't we?

Delenn

The third principle of sentient life is its capacity for self-sacrifice, for a cause...a loved one...for a friend.

Delenn

Summoned, I come. In Valen's name, I take the place that has been prepared for me. I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.

Delenn

We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a...bright future, we must learn to break those chains.

Delenn

I was there when our war against Earth began, when our ship encountered an Earth vessel for the first time. Afraid of us, of the unknown, they fired. I saw our leader dying. I heard the cries for revenge, for blood, for death. In return we nearly exterminated an entire species. My people are tired of war, G'Kar!

Delenn

John...John...

Delenn

Prophecy is a poor guide to the future. You only understand it when the event's already upon you.

Delenn

Humans have a phrase: "What is past, is prologue." [...] Minbari also have a phrase: "What is past, is also sometimes the future."

Delenn

The chances of success are small, but if we stay here and do nothing, they are even smaller. So we go. As a dear friend said to me, "If you're falling off a mountain, you may as well try to fly." Here, at the end, I offer you one final chance to fly.

Delenn

Before the war, Dukhat wanted to know more about your people, so I began studying your history. I came to the conclusion that of all the races we had encountered, humans were the most dangerous. Because humans form communities. And from that diversity comes a strength that no single race can withstand. That is your strength. And it is that which makes you dangerous.

Delenn

Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who opposed me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than someone who is always on my side because it was expected and required.

Delenn

It was the end of the Earth year 2261, and it was the dawn of a new age...for all of us. It was end of one chapter, and the beginning of another. The next twenty years would see great changes, great joy, and great sorrow. The Telepath War, and the Drakh War. The new Alliance would waver, and crack...but in the end, it would hold. Because what is built endures, and what is loved endures...and Babylon 5...Babylon 5 endures.

Delenn

What we are isn't a matter of flesh, it's a matter of will.

Delenn

We are all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion stars. Molecules that do not understand politics or policies or differences. Over a billion years, we foolish molecules forget who we are and where we came from. In desperate acts of ego, we give ourselves names, fight over lines on maps, and pretend that our light is better than everyone else's.

Delenn

There are moments when we all become someone else, something other than what we are. It takes only a moment. But we spend the rest of our lives looking back at that moment in shame.