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This article collect quotes made by the followers of Chaos. The quotes are organized in an alphabetical order, using the authors name. Statements made by unknown authors are at the beginning. Several statements about the followers, and Chaos in general, are also collected in similar articles (esp. Inquisition and Ecclesiarchy Quotes).
| Alphabetical order | author | quote | source |
| Chaos aspiring champions | Do you hear the voices too?!! | Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War | |
| Death to the false Emperor! | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 4 | ||
| Burn the body; sear the soul | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 82 | ||
| Impurity shall be our armour
Hate shall be our weapon Immortality shall be our reward | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 83 | ||
| Destroy, for the sake of Destruction
Kill, for the sake of Killing | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 83 | ||
| Let no good deed go unpunished.
Let no evil deed go unrewarded. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 84 | ||
| Stand forth, Servant. The Sword you carry has been smelted in the heat of your anger, forged upon your desire, tempered in your hate, quenched in your soul, polished with your loyalty, furnished with your bones and skin, tested in your hand, and borne in my name. You Slave, are mine, as much as the Blade... | Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, Chaos Weapons | ||
| A | Abaddon the Despoiler | Horus was weak. Horus was a fool. He had the whole galaxy within his grasp and he let it slip away. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition), p. 44 |
| Ahriman of the Thousand Sons | And what are the achievements of your fragile Imperium? It is a corpse rotting slowly from within while maggots writhe in its belly. It was built with the toil of heroes and giants, and now it is inhabited by frightened weaklings to whom the glories of those times are half-forgotten legends. I have forgotten nothing and my wisdom has expanded far beyond mere mortal frailties. | US WD275/UK WD276: Heroes and Villains of the 41st Millennium: Ahriman | |
| B | Fabius Bile at the Desecration of Kanzuz IX | If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 53 |
| Fabius Bile, Lieutenant Commander of the Emperor's Children1 | Follow me, my Children, and the glory of victory shall be yours. We shall cleanse ourselves in the crimson waters of our enemy. We shall bring the ecstasy of quick release to those who stand before us. We shall give bloody praise to the Lord of Pleasure and sing his name as we dance across the fallen. Follow me, my Children, and you shall taste the undreamt joys that lie beyond the bounds of mortal sense. | Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness | |
| The Grimoire Muatatio Curatus (The Forbidden Writings of Fabius Bile) | Each of the Legions has now nominated aspirants seeking to throw themselves upon our mercy in the vain hope that we may deem them worthy to join our ranks. Those loyal to the shrunken corpse on Terra still cling to their own processes by which perhaps one in a hundred neophytes may survive to become a battle brother. The methods I have developed over the last millennia are more stringent, for we must be pure in our hatred and hard of heart, body and soul. Fewer than one in every thousand survive, and I strive each day to lengthen these odds still further. | US WD277/UK WD278: Heroes and Villains of the 41st Millennium: Fabius Bile | |
| C | Chaos Marine | Sanity is for the weak! | Dawn of War |
| Chaos Marine | WE ARE THE DESTROYER! | Dawn of War | |
| Chaos Marine (after regaining morale) | We're back, and better than ever! | Dawn of War | |
| H | Dark Apostle Harzhan of the Word Bearers | Cast down the idols! Destroy the temples! Slay the priests! Show these fools that they worship nothing more than a rotting corpse! | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 42 |
| Kulvain Hestarius of the Death Guard | In the embrace of the great Nurgle, I am no longer afraid, for with His pestilential favour I have become that which I once most feared: Death. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 10 | |
| attributed to Warmaster Horus before the assault on the Imperial Palace | The day will not save them. And we own the night. | Adeptus Titanicus (game) (1988), p. 43 | |
| I | Ferrous Ironclaw - Warsmith of the Iron Warriors Second Grand Company | We fight the long war, not through vain notions of duty and honour, but through a far purer purpose: hatred. At the height of our glory we were betrayed and cast out by our kin. Guilliman, Dorn, Sanguinius - these are names I curse. Horus, Perturabo, Angron - these are names I revere, names I would follow to the very end. It is this hatred that has sustained me through the long millennia. I tend it with bitterness. I nurture it with the deaths of my former brothers. For I know that when the end is upon us and Horus is returned, then the false emperor shall be cast down from his sepulchral Golden Throne, and we shall take our rightful place at the side of Horus, the true Emperor of Mankind. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition), p. 82 |
| Last words of the Renegade Harkan Ironfist | I salute you! For though our path has been long and bloody, you have served our Lord with unflinching courage and the honour of true warriors. We have seen many fall today and must remember, even as we die, that our blood too is welcome... | Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, p. 234 | |
| K | Heretical teachings of Magos Elizah Kaudge | Flesh and bone are weak and mutable, and yet the daemonic is ultimately insubstantial and impotent. To be master of both matter and energy, and blend this mastery with ultimate control of one's consciousness, is to achieve true immortality - neither confined by the material, nor divorced from it. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 35 |
| Khârn of the World Eaters | Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition), p. 49 | |
| Teachings of Gaiak Krustellam, Dark Magos | The revelation of spirit when encountering the power of Chaos is as freeing for the machine as it is for the mortal mind. It is our duty to create this blessed state of union. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 44 | |
| M | Proclamation of Magnus the Red | The minds of gods are not for mortals to know or to judge. Accept that Tzeentch has a place for all of us in his grand scheme, and be happy in the part you have to play. | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 37 |
| P | Gauwe Psgas | It is the fate of the weak to die unknown, and the destiny of the strong to rule for eternity. Give me glory, or give me death! | Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 81 |
| T | Tyrell, Renegade Lord of Arden IX | Take care, lest your protests grow tiresome. I have asked for so little! Anyone would think that I have asked you to sacrifice yourselves and your sons! And yet, in Slaanesh's boundless and pleasing mercy, I have asked only for your daughters. Surely you would not deny me my small enjoyments? | Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned |
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| Their baying chills the heart and spreads icy tendrils of fear through weak mortal souls. And yet worse, yet more terrible to behold, are the huntsmen of this fell pack. Following close upon the Hounds, urging them ever forward, come deformed shapes, running and shrieking, driven by the insatiable blood-hunger of their kind. With twisted crimson bodies they stride across the blighted land, crouched over as if the better to track their prey's terror. Masters of the hunt, they seek the blood of Man to spill at the foot of their master's Skull Throne +++ unknown +++ |
| The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom +++ unknown +++3 |
| Don't blame me for what I’ve done. I watched my wife and daughters die before me. It was death or embracing Chaos, and I knew that through Chaos, I might live. Live! It is life that matters and what I have learned is that Chaos IS life, for life is change and destruction and new forms, new mutations ever manifesting. We clung to the Emperor, a dying effigy, because He was all we knew. We feared life. We feared our own potential strength. The Imperium is dying. A slow death, but it’s dying. I did what I had to, that’s all. I opened my eyes and saw what a fool all of us were, bowing to a half-dead failure slumped on a throne. Haha! The blasphemy still sends shivers down my spine. It is the freshness of life. I am given to Chaos now. Now I truly live! +++ unknown +++4 |
| With the thirty-seven keys of Tzeentch, we open the way for our brothers. With the thousand whispers of Slaanesh, we call to them. With the twelve plagues of Nurgle, we fell their enemies. And with the mighty axe of Khorne, we cut open the world for them. +++ Amphion and Zethus, Word Bearer Sorcerers +++5 |
A
| Long shall be your suffering. Joyous be your pain. +++ Asteroth, Daemon prince of Slaanesh +++ |
B
| The strong are strongest alone. +++ Lufgt Huron, The Tyrant of Badab +++ |
| Though my guards may sleep and ships may rest at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire. +++ Lufgt Huron, The Tyrant of Badab +++ |
| Though the gates that stand between the mortal world and the immortal Realm of Chaos are now closed to me, still I would rather die having glimpsed eternity than never to have stirred from the cold furrow of mortal life. I embrace death without regret as I have embraced life without fear. +++ Kargos Bloodspitter, Champion of Khorne +++3 |
C
| Like the great storm of the Horus Heresy, the forces of the True Gods will descend upon the Emperor's minions. The stars will tremble at their passage and the mighty armadas of the Warmaster Abaddon will bring annihilation to a hundred worlds. Know this, for these things will come to pass. +++ Constanze the Prophetess, burned as a Heretic 687.M38 +++ |
| By the Worm Eye that bleeds in all the dark places, by the wound that never heals... I summon you, Bloodthirster, from the darkest depths of the Warp! +++ Crull, Warlord of the World Eaters +++6 |
| Yes! Let the blood flow! I and I alone, will be Khorne's chosen... his favoured acolyte and prime among his champions. And on that day when the Titan is mine, you will all worship me as you do the Gods! Once the Titan is mine, I will crush entire suns in the palm of my hand. I will stride down the halls of the Heathen Emperor and I will grind him and the Golden Throne of Terra between my iron fingers! More! More blood for the Blood God! +++ Crull, Warlord of the World Eaters +++6 |
| Know this! What will come to pass is no longer war! It is endless sacrifice in His name. Blood for the Blood God... let the universe drown in it! +++ Crull, Warlord of the World Eaters +++6 |
D
| What the thick-headed fools with their broken corpse of an Emperor fail to understand is that not only can they never defeat us, but they can not hide or flee or shield themselves from the triumph of Chaos. They are finite and we are unbound, undivided. They must not err, or they fall to heresy. All who fall join our cause. Every Imperial fool who dares to open his eyes is a willing recruit. They strive merely to hold back our fury and might, and it consumes them. Thus you can see Chaos is inevitable. We lurk not only beyond their grasp and at their gates; we lurk within the darkness of their souls, on the tip of their tongues, in their tortured dreams. We are them, but freed from the shackles of ignorance. We are them, grown strong… evolved. We are them, but so much more! +++ Diuman Cilious, Alpha Legion Sorcerer +++4 |
E
| Hear my warnings, unbelievers. Carried to your minds by the power of the Prince of Excess himself. We have raised altars in this land so that we may sacrifice you to our gods. Veterans of ten millennia of unholy war wait to grind you beneath the treads of their mighty boots. The chosen of Khorne hunger to add you to their bloody tally. The Blood God himself has marked this land, and will claim your skulls for his throne. There is no hope in opposing the inevitable. Put down your arms, unbelievers, and bow before the forces of Chaos Undivided. +++ Eliphas the Inheritor, Word Bearers Dark Apostle +++5 |
F
| The Dark Gods and their slaves have nothing to offer me now, but I have far more to offer them +++ Fabius Bile +++ |
G
| You have caused us great discomfort, little flea... And I feel inclined to scratch. +++ Grimspyre, Daemon of Khorne to Inquisitor Hand +++ |
H
| Let the Galaxy burn. Let the heavens bleed. +++ Warmaster Horus +++ |
| When the traitor's hand strikes, it strikes with the strength of a legion. +++ attributed to Warmaster Horus The Traitor's Hand (Novel)+++ |
K
| Do not ask which creature screams in the night
Do not ask which creature screams in the night,
Do not question who waits for you in the shadow.
It is my cry that wakes you in the night,
And my body that crouches in the shadow.
I am Tzeentch and you are the puppet
That dances to my tune. |
| "Attack" is the only order worth remembering. +++ Khârn the Betrayer +++1 |
N
| Let us play hide and slay! +++ The Nine Heads of Nurgle +++ |
| We're so loud you wanna die Go forth and amplify |
| Your presence does not surprise me Assassin. I have known of you since your craft entered the Eastern Fringes. Why did I not have you killed? Because your mission and the act you are about to commit proves the truth of all I have ever said or done. I merely punished those who had wronged, just as your false Emperor now seeks to punish me. Death is nothing compared to vindication. +++ Primarch Konrad Curze, aka Night Haunter, moments before his death at the hands of Callidus Assassin M'Shen +++ |
O
| [RECORD BEGINS] The process of absorption fascinates… [unclear] ones body might somehow swallow the item, like unto a serpent or the surface of some [viscous?] fluid. Yet it doth seem a mutual [process]. For not only doth the body absorb the [weapon] but also [doth the] weapon, in some strange way, seem to [absorb] the body…[RECORD CORRUPT] as the weapon becomes like unto my flesh, so doth mine flesh… [unclear] like unto the weapon. Indeed, I trace this [stylus] upon mine arm, and the shape and form of the weapon appears under [my touch?]. It doth not appear in mine hand so much as mine hand doth arrange itself so as to become the weapon… [BREAK IN RECORD] capakhity of mine new form to abkhorb weaponsh ish akhtonishing… [unclear] a whole lakhgun! But I do shtart to lokhe zhe shenshation in mine shkin. Mine jawkh are [hardening?] and mine ribkh are protruding from mine [chest]. Zhey are of a dull, metallic sheen and tekhts show zhey are a mix of [bone?] and shome metal I cannot identify… [BREAK IN RECORD] thsi wil be mmmylsat [RECORD CORRUPT] cannnnnnnnnnnot useth esse febel mahcinsse aaaaany log;ner [RECORD CORRUPT] tothe eyeof the larybinht the hearto fthe maichnettttto the pppplaceo f… metalll… [RECORD ENDS] +++ From the private collection of Inquisitor Cleops, unknown origin +++ |
S
| The bolts from our guns shall be as thick as flies on a corpse, our followers shall be as numerous as maggots on rotting flesh and news of our victory will spread through the armies of our enemies like a plague. +++ Augury of Sarcidius, Death Guard Librarian +++ |
| I murdered thousands for the Emperor and he gave me nothing except his damning silence. Now his lapdogs yap for every life I take, while the gods promise me the galaxy.
+++ Svane Vulfbad +++ |
V
| Well, that was unexpected... +++ Last words of the Chaos Warmaster Varon the Undefeatable The Traitor's Hand (Novel)+++ |
X
| This is our galaxy. Ours to corrupt. Ours to enslave. The gods will not be denied their prize. +++ Xerxeth, Sorcerer of the Black Legion +++ |
Sources
- 1Realm of Chaos, Slaves to Darkness, The Lost and the Damned
- 2Codex: Chaos Space Marines
- 3Codex Imperialis
- 4Dawn of War: Soulstorm
- 5Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
- 6Dawn of War: Winter Assault
