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This article collect quotes made by the followers of Chaos. The quotes are organized in an alphabetical order, using the speaker's name. Several statements about the followers, and Chaos in general, are also collected in similar articles (esp. Inquisition and Ecclesiarchy Quotes).
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Attributed
A
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| 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 |
| Alpha Legion |
1. Discipline leads to Victory |
Dawn of War: Soulstorm |
|
-I am Alpharius. |
Legion (Novel) by Dan Abnett[Needs Citation] | |
| Amphion and Zethus, Word Bearers Sorcerers | 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. | Dawn of War: Dark Crusade (Chaos stronghold campaign) |
| Chaos Aspiring Champions | Do you hear the voices too?!! | Dawn of War |
| Asteroth, Daemon Prince of Slaanesh | Long shall be your suffering. Joyous be your pain. | [Needs Citation] |
B
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Fabius Bile, Lieutenant Commander of the Emperor's Children1 | 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. - at the Desecration of Kanzuz IX |
Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), p. 53 |
| 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 | |
| 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. - from The Grimoire Muatatio Curatus (The Forbidden Writings of Fabius Bile |
US WD277/UK WD278: Heroes and Villains of the 41st Millennium: Fabius Bile | |
| The Dark Gods and their slaves have nothing to offer me now, but I have far more to offer them |
[Needs Citation] | |
| Kargos Bloodspitter, Champion of Khorne | 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. | Codex Imperialis, [Needs Citation] |
C
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Chaos Marines | Sanity is for the weak! | Dawn of War |
| WE ARE THE DESTROYER! | ||
| We're back, and better than ever! - after regaining morale | ||
| Diuman Cilious, Alpha Legion Sorcerer | 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! |
Dawn of War: Soulstorm |
| Constanze the Prophetess, burned as a Heretic 687.M38 | 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. | [Needs Citation] |
| Crull, Warlord of the World Eaters | 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! | Dawn of War: Winter Assault |
| 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! | ||
| 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! | ||
| Primarch Konrad Curze, aka Night Haunter | 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. - moments before his death at the hands of Callidus Assassin M'Shen |
[Needs Citation] |
E
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Eliphas the Inheritor, Word Bearers Dark Apostle | 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. |
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade |
G
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Grimspyre, Daemon of Khorne | You have caused us great discomfort, little flea... And I feel inclined to scratch. - to Inquisitor Silas Hand |
[Needs Citation] |
H
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| 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 |
| Honsou, Warsmith of the Iron Warriors |
That's what you don't understand about me, Vaanes. I don't care. I do what I want because it is who I am. Anything else is a lie and if there is one thing I can say of myself, it is that I will never compromise who I am. Not for the powers of the warp, not for the M'kar and certainly not for you. When death is a heartbeat away, I am truly alive. That's the only way I know how to live. What else is there? | The Chapter's Due (Novel) by Graham McNeill, Chapter 9, pp. 120-121 |
| Horus | The creatures of the Warp are just "aliens" too, but they are not life forms as we understand the term. They are not organic. They are extra-dimensional, and they influence our reality in ways that seem sorcerous to us. Supernatural, if you will. So let's use all those lost words for them... daemons, spirits, possessors, changelings. All we need to remember is that there are no gods out there, in the darkness, no great daemons and ministers of evil. There is no fundamental, immutable evil in the cosmos. It is too large and sterile for such melodrama. There are simply inhuman things that oppose us, things we were created to battle and destroy. Orks. Gykon. Tushepta. Keylekid. Eldar. Jokaero... and the creatures of the warp, which are stanger than all for they exhibit powers that are bizarre to us because of the otherness of their nature. - on Sixty-Three Nineteen, after the Battle of the Whisperhead Mountains |
Horus Rising (Novel) by Dan Abnett, Part One, Chapter Ten, p. 199 |
| The day will not save them. And we own the night. - attributed to Horus before the assault on the Imperial Palace |
Adeptus Titanicus (game) (1988), p. 43 | |
| Let the Galaxy burn. Let the heavens bleed. | [Needs Citation] | |
| When the traitor's hand strikes, it strikes with the strength of a legion. - attributed |
The Traitor's Hand (Novel) by Sandy Mitchell - Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus), Chapter 5, p. 547 | |
| Lufgt Huron, The Tyrant of Badab | The strong are strongest alone. | The Skull Harvest (Short Story) by Graham McNeill |
| Though my guards may sleep and ships may rest at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire. | [Needs Citation] |
I
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| 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 |
| 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... - last words |
Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness, p. 234 |
K
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Karazantor the Vile, The Traitor of Xian | Do not ask which creature screams in the night
Do not ask which creature screams in the night, |
Codex Imperialis, [Needs Citation] |
| 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 |
| "Attack" is the only order worth remembering. |
Realm of Chaos, Slaves to Darkness, The Lost and the Damned, [Needs Citation] | |
| 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 |
L
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Lorgar, Primarch of the Word Bearers | The difference between gods and daemons largely depends upon where one is standing at the time. | Horus Rising (Novel) by Dan Abnett, Part One, p. 12 |
| It's called treachery, Roboute. It works very well. | Know No Fear (Novel) by Dan Abnett, System//Kill, Chapter Three, p. 197 |
M
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| 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 |
| M'kar the Thrice Born, Daemon Prince |
The inferno of my vengeance fills you! It will burn you, my bearers of the holy word, it will fill your veins with power and fire until Ultramar is in ashes. As my power flows in you, so too will I see what you see, feel what you feel and know what you know. With each death I will grow stronger. With every fortress burned my reach will stretch further. You will be my army of dark righteousness. You will be the Bloodborn and your name shall strike terror into the hearts of men! Spread throughout Ultramar and take my fire to the Ultramarines! Burn them from their fastnesses until no trace remains. This is my holy word! - 854999.M41 | The Chapter's Due (Novel) by Graham McNeill, Chapter 5, p. 74 |
| Sindri Myr, Alpha Legion Sorcerer |
All power demands sacrifice... and pain. The universe rewards those willing to spill their life's blood for the promise of power. | Dawn of War |
N
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| The Nine Heads of Nurgle | Let us play hide and slay! | [Needs Citation] |
| From Noise Marines by D-Rok | We're so loud you wanna die Go forth and amplify |
[Needs Citation] |
P
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| 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 |
S
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Augury of Sarcidius, Death Guard Librarian | 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. | [Needs Citation] |
T
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| 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 |
U
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Ulkair, Great Unclean One | There, feel the glory of necrosis, and rejoice! Nurgle loves you! | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution |
V
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Warmaster Varan the Undefeatable | Well, that was unexpected... - Last words, attributed by Commissar Ciaphas Cain |
The Traitor's Hand (Novel) Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus) by Sandy Mitchell, Ch. 18, p. 723 |
| That was unexpected, wasn't it? - Last words |
Cain's Last Stand (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium (Omnibus) by Sandy Mitchell, Chapter 24, p. 756 | |
| Svane Vulfbad | 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. | [Needs Citation] |
X
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Xerxeth, Sorcerer of the Black Legion | This is our galaxy. Ours to corrupt. Ours to enslave. The gods will not be denied their prize. | Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition), [Needs Citation] |
Anonymous/Unattributed
| Quote | Source |
| 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 |
[Needs Citation] |
| 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 |
Codex Imperialis, [Needs Citation] |
| 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 |
Dawn of War: Soulstorm |
| 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 |
| [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 |
[Needs Citation] |
| Kill us! Kill us all! in the name of Terra, before he- -transcript of last broadcast from Ryxus V, the first world conquered by Heritor Asphodel |
Necropolis (Novel) by Dan Abnett, Chapter Eleven |
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
