Editing Nobledark Imperium Notes (section)

= Quotes =

The galaxy has numerous notable individuals. Some of which are highly quotable. This is a collection of quotes that aren't yet associated with any material as of yet.

''"Grey Knights never die in their beds"''<br>
- Unknown, attributed to Janus, first Supreme Grandmaster of the Grey Knights

''"Take it from me, darling, death is boring. The Formless Wastes are a snore and none of the daemons ever seem to want to play with you."''<br>
- Lady Malys, on the concept of death

''"Funeral dirges are only played for heroes who have already died, Chapter Master Dubaku. Hold tight Astartes, a Battle Barge with our finest apothecaries shall be at your location shortly."''<br>
- Chapter Master Grimaldus of the Black Templars, upon hearing the request for last rights from acting Chapter Master Ekene Dubaku of the Celestial Lions

''"The olden days have alas turned to clay,''<br>
''because I allowed evil to exist in the heart of Shaa-Dome!''<br>
''How could I allow such evil in the heart of Shaa-Dome,''<br>
''creating a catastrophe to destroy my children!''<br>
''I was their mother, who saw them rise''<br>
''Now their bodies fill the void like so much debris!"''<br>
-- Grand Empress Isha, on the Fall.

''"I have killed gods before. I assure you, your pantheon will be no different."''<br>
-- Silent King Szarekh, upon meeting [[Chaos]] worshippers for the first time.  Erroneously recorded as "I slew the parents of your gods..." in some histories. 

''"There are no shortage of eager idiots in Shaa-Dome"''<br>
--The Taskmaster of Slaanesh

''"The most beautiful part of desperation is how easily it causes fools to mistake exploitation for generosity."''<br>
--unnamed Crone Eldar Admiral, sent to his death in a crusade called by the Taskmaster

''"Men of Stone, even on primitive worlds, can live almost a century, with rare specimens living for multiple centuries and siring massive families even without rejuvenants, these exceptions appearing in numerous histories, all pertaining to a sort of permanent legacy. With further technologies recalled from their former Great and Bountiful Dominion, humans can live for small spans of millennia, and far beyond that by a myriad means their vaunted institutions forbid. Magnus, the Gorgon, and Vulcan, Primarchs all, their ends were the ends of the Imperium's longest lives, the death of its longest era. Lore-master, orderer, binder of Chaos and cog-priest, shorn of weak flesh to the last samples of human tissue enthroned in metal, passed beyond Imperial art to preserve them, barely old enough for the Eldar courtiers of their 'empire' to commemorate them as accomplished in their tragically brief lives. Even the holy man, preaching his fire and brimstone and hoisted high upon the pulpit, flesh alloyed with gold and anointed in promethium, sputtered out, not to be rekindled by his phantom of a god, or the Golden Man that proposed to share its blood with him so long ago. Away have all the greatest humans passed from the Imperium, earlier or later, into death and away from humanity, taken forever by mortality. Or by immortality. I and our long awaited Emperor in Sol will agree on only this, that to be Men of Stone is to be mortal. To be worn down by ages in little time is their essential lot, by fae vigor or cold iron or imperishable gold, all that does not is not a Man of Stone, cannot be. It gives him worry still, I suspect, but oh, such is his way."''<br>
-- Lucius the Eternal, some time after the coronation

''"You see a lot of things happen to people in this business. Things that no one should have to see done to others, much less experience themselves. You can gird your heart all you want. You can tell yourself that there is nothing you could have done. You can tell yourself they died for the greater good. You can try to tell yourself at least they didn't suffer. But the truth is, when you finally decide to tell yourself the truth, is that they were people. And they didn't deserve to die like that."''<br>
-- Gregor Eisenhorn, Radical Inquisitor

''Jokaero are Men of Stone. Somehow. Don't give me that look, they are the work of the Human Dominion before Old Night, it is certain. There are truly antique records of creatures very much like them in form among earth life, relatives of ancient humans. None balk at the notion that the self styled Great and Bountiful Dominion had no qualms in rebuilding Humanity, it follows easily that they did much the same with other Old Earth life. Certainly the technological encoding of the Jokaero fit the proud pretenses of the Iron Minds to mimic the Old Ones. In concept at least the ruddy apes' startling knowledge resembles an attempt at Ork-craft by another author, whose boldness and ambition matches that shown in all the Iron Minds' projects. The secrets they hold, knowingly or not, bear the distinct and momentous imprint of that past human epoch, at least in my estimation.''<br>
-- Uthan the Perverse, because being so wrong requires practice

''"Kronus is the Imperium in a microcosm. A complete clusterfuck with enough backlogged paperwork to give even a hardened bureaucrat pause, composed of several different cultures and even species that have radically different mindsets and worldviews from one another, which only functions because the people who live there believe in one another and truly want to make it work."''<br>
-- Retired Guard veteran and long time bar patron of Kronus’ Dig the Fuck Inn, name unknown, on the nature of Kronus

'''Thoughts for the Day'''

++Thought for the Day: In unity, there is strength. In division, only death.++

++Thought for the Day: Cowardice only hastens your death. Survival lies in defying the darkness.++

++Thought for the Day: We are heirs to a tradition that has lasted unbroken for ten thousand years. It is our duty to carry it on into the future, as every generation before us has.++

++Thought for the Day: A life spent in service to yourself is worth nothing. A life spent in service to civilization is worth everything.++

++Thought for the Day: Death is the fate of all living things. When you die does not matter; it is how you die that is important.++

++Thought for the Day: Let your first thought upon waking always be "What can I do for the Imperium today."++

++Thought for the Day: To defy barbarism, even in a hopeless situation, is its own point, its own end, and its own reward.++

++Thought for the Day: The sacrifices made for the Imperium are already too great. Do not let them be for nothing.++

++Thought for the Day: Better to strike a light and curse the darkness than simply curse the darkness.++