Guy Haley > Quotes

“No, but if I were an illegal, experimental replicant hiding the truth of an international conspiracy I would try and put myself out of the way of those investigating it, wouldn't you? I don't think hiding under a bed will be very successful. But, if you've any better idea of what the deadly robot assassin is up to, please feel free to act upon it.”
― Guy Haley, Reality 36

“Boredom,’ said Curze to his flesh sculpture, many years later, ‘is among the greatest of all human sins. It demands mischief to fill it, and mischief begets disorder. Boredom is pernicious, bringing forth wickedness in those who might remain guiltless. I do not know how much to blame boredom for what happened on Nostramo, but surely it must have played its part.”
― Guy Haley, Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter

“Joy is an act of defiance,’ said the Khan. ‘With joy, we win, even if we lose. To have lived well is a victory all its own, for we all die. Death is unimportant to the laughing warrior. A poet makes tragedy glorious. That is why.”
― Guy Haley, The Lost and the Damned

“The Emperor loves no one man, thought Guilliman. He cannot afford affection – that is the honest practical for the impossible task that faces the Master of Mankind. He did not love His sons, He does not love men, but He does love mankind. I find it hard to forgive Him. Did His solution have to be built on lies? Lies upon lies?”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“All we have is life. It is the only thing that is ours.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son

“Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Intent on their small extinctions, they are ignorant of the greater death going on all around them.”
― Guy Haley, Champion of Mars

“Humanity is not measured on form alone, but by deeds, my lord,’ said Ventris. ‘A mortal man may be inhuman towards other men, yet I have seen xenos behave with honour and fairness when we offer them nothing but hate.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“The world ends incrementally said Yuri (...) what is normal for us grows but slightly worse in our lifetime and that slight worsening is normal for the next generation who know nothing else. By little steps, we walk the long road to Armageddon”
― Guy Haley, Crash

“There's always a first time. With death, it's also the last.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son

“Mankind's spirit inspired Felix. These people had no special gifts, no enhancements, nothing, and yet they lived. These ordinary men and women had suffered the worst the galaxy had to throw at them. It humbled him that he would spend his life in service to them.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“Do not underestimate the evils men will do for a small advantage.”
― Guy Haley, His Will

“Envy is always the flaw of those who crave influence.”
― Guy Haley, Flesh and Steel

“Keep your eyes forward. Look at what is to come, he told himself. The past is dead, the present nearly so. Only in the future is there life.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“He really is as mad as they say,’ said Gun.
‘Nobody sane would do this,’ agreed Elver.
‘They would,’ said Gun. ‘I have seen the same done, and worse, to further the survival of the Imperium. What is insane is not what was done, but why. This butchery is an indulgence. It serves no purpose. The monstrous can be justifiable, but if it cannot be righteous, then it is merely monstrous.”
― Guy Haley, Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter

“Everyone is a kind of story that they tell themselves.”
― Guy Haley, Flesh and Steel

“Power is corrosive, thought Calgar. It erodes respect. It erodes common sense.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“I cannot allow my own convictions to get in the way of truth, for only in knowing the truth can victory be secured.”
― Guy Haley

“The days of mankind are nearly done. For years I have been seeing it. All we can do while we are here is live. All any human ever has been able to do is live. That is all I tried to do.”
― Guy Haley, A Witch's Fate

“But there was also a sense of an absence in his gene-forged body that made itself known as dull ache. Guilliman called it emotional pain. After all he had seen in this new age, he remained loath to name it spiritual in nature. He was too enamoured of reason to truly believe his soul had been injured.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“You will learn more of the Red Thirst and Black Rage in time, how they affect you and where they come from. For now, let it be known that they exist, and that you must oppose them through the Five Graces of our Chapter. Your first lesson is their names,’ he said gruffly. ‘They are thus: Focus, Humility, Mercy, Restraint and the last and greatest of all, Forgiveness.”
― Guy Haley, Dante

“Rostov got onto his knees, wrapped his rosary around his sticky fingers, kissed the small golden figure sat upon its throne, closed his eyes, and began to pray.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son

“It was going to be a long night.”
― Guy Haley

“One human effort is nothing, but together, we are the greatest empire there has ever been. Be reassured, that your insignificant toil here aggregates with that of billions of others into something fine and mighty. In that way we serve, though we are but humble.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son

“There were no pure pleasures in this world that duty could not spoil.”
― Guy Haley, The Beheading

“The truest thing my father said to me when I was a boy was that rich men deal in only one thing, and that is time. Time is the most precious resource any man has; however he chooses to spend it, he won’t get any more. The great trick people like my father play is to convince others to undervalue it, or to force its devaluation, by holding it hostage for food, a roof, a pair of shoes. The rich pay slivers on the slate for every hour they steal. That’s why they’re rich.”
― Guy Haley, Flesh and Steel

“Sometimes the best move in politics is to refuse the game in the first place.”
― Guy Haley, The Lost and the Damned

“If the Emperor Himself stood up, thought Guilliman, came down off His Golden Throne and proclaimed 'I am not a god!' then they would burn Him as a heretic.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“The Emperor had allowed them to love Him, and to believe He loved them in return. He had not. His primarchs were weapons, that was all.”
― Guy Haley, Dark Imperium

“You can’t just run away when things aren’t going well. The Emperor has His plan for all of us. By denying it, you are at the risk of heresy, and we’ll all be held accountable.”
― Guy Haley, Avenging Son