"Casualties continue to mount over the long years I've struggled. More and more I find myself wondering if it's all worth fighting for. Maybe one day, I'll find out."

"Resignation is my virtue. Like water, I ebb and flow. Defeat is but the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed."

"How could I have known the Parasite would follow?! Undoubtedly this is the Heretics' doing. A final, bitter curse. Clear evidence of treachery long hidden. So far are we along the path, that I must strain to hear the clumsy patter of their feet. Know this, my brothers: They may foul the way with their charred and broken bones, but they will not stop the Journey."

"Do not be afraid. I am peace; I am salvation."

"Time has taught me patience! But basking in new freedom, I will know all that I possess!"

"Of course, you came for her... We exist together now. Two corpses in one grave."

"Do not shoot, but listen! Let me lead you safely to our foe. Only you can halt what he has set in motion."

"Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness: a father's sins pass to his son."

"Do I take life or give it? Who is victim, and who is foe?"

"You will show me what she hides, or I shall feast upon your bones!"

"[From the Announcement Trailer at E3 2006] I have defied Gods and Demons. I am your shield; I am your sword. I know you: your past, your future. This is the way the world ends."

"Finish the Fight."

"This is the way the world ends..."

"A desperate enemy... a desperate war."

"Believe... in heroes."

"Don't Make a Girl a Promise, if you know you can't keep it."

"Yeah, I crapped myself. So what?"

"Hey, if I get shot, be sure to give me lots of drugs."

"[If the Chief stares at a Marine for a while] Hey, maybe we should hold hands."

"I need a nurse! No...no! A female nurse."

"Dear humanity, we regret bein' alien bastards, we regret comin' to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet! Ooh-rah!"

"Don't they teach you kids how to swear in basic anymore?"

"[The Master Chief lands on the In Amber Clad with a thud] For a brick, he flew pretty good!"

"There are those that said this day would never come...What are they to say now?"

"Chief, get inside, gear up. We're taking this fight to the surface."

"The Elites are blind, Arbiter! But I will make them see."

"Ask the Oracle about Halo. How they would sacrifice us all for nothing."

"[from a recorded message] Our Prophets are false! Open your eyes, my brothers! They would use the faith of our forefathers to bring ruin to us all! The Great Journey is a -- [the message is paused]"

"[Abandoning the Prophet of Mercy to the infection form attacking him] The Great Journey waits for no one, brother...not even you."

"No enemy has ever withstood our might. The Flood too shall fail."