154 Quotes About The-black-library

Existence is strife." "To strive is to live.

Some truths were too ugly to be easily embraced.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."- Ahzek Ahriman

You're right, Mal, you and Erebus both. My father made me for immortality and the galaxy should know of me. Ten thousand years from now I want my name to be known all across the heavens." - Warmaster Horus

The truth is useless if no one can hear it.

Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant."- First Chaplain Erebus

When presented with a choice of beginnings, choose the one with meaning.

He had seen the ambitious and the proud seek to raise themselves above their kin, and in so doing corrupt themselves, make themselves into things of contempt. The true nobility did not need to prove itself. It simply was, a fact as indisputable as the orbit of planets and the majesty of stars.

Up there, wherever he is, I'll bet Horus has not aged a day. Such insects we must seem to him, our lives as fleeting as summer days. It can'be healthy. Men were not meant to last forever - not even men like him. ...This is what occurs when the mighty are immortal, Spall. Inevitable, I suppose. Ambition is poison to loyalty, in the end.