[The interrogator leaves Sheridan in the room, with a recorded voice repeating over and over.]
Recording: You will cooperate with the state, for the good of the state and your own survival. You will confess to the crimes of which you have been accused. You will be released and returned to society a productive citizen if you cooperate. Resistance will be punished. Cooperation will be rewarded.

[The Liandra, 20 years old and somewhat in need of maintenance, is about to try to launch.]
Sarah Cantrell: Today's a good day to die.
David Martel: Oh, with you every day is a good day to die.

[The man from 1 million years hence prepares to leave the doomed Earth to the imminent Solar nova.]
Exeter: This is how the world ends, swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time.[N]

[The opening monologue to the episode, done in voiceover. This is the special edition version; for continuity purposes, two lines were removed from the original.]
Londo Mollari: I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind. It began in the Earth year 2257, with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. Babylon 5 was a dream given form, a dream of a galaxy without war where species from different worlds could live side by side in mutual respect. Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story.

[The War Council has just witnessed the Shadow planet killer in action]
Michael Garibaldi: Anyone want to tell me how the hell we're supposed to stop that?

[the White Star arrives at Z'ha'dum]
Bester: Is that it? It looks like Hell.
Sheridan: That's about right.

[The White Star is fleeing a Shadow ship in hyperspace, and Sheridan has an idea for beating it.]
Sheridan: Tell me, Commander...have you ever wondered what would happen if you opened a jump point while inside a jump gate?
Ivanova: No! And neither should you! EarthForce experimented with the idea during the Minbari War. They called it the Bonehead Maneuver. [to Lennier] No offense.
Lennier: [more curious than offended] None taken.

[The White Star struggles to escape Jupiter's pull]
Sheridan: Full power! Give me everything you've got!
Lennier: If I were holding anything back, I would tell you.

[Theo tends to the mortally wounded Edward after getting him down from the makeshift cross]
Brother Edward: Is there enough forgiveness for what I've done?
Brother Theo: Always, Edward, always. Take my hand. [Edward fumbles, and Theo takes his hand.] Through the mysteries of our redemption, may Almighty God release you from all punishments in this life and in the life to come. [Sheridan joins them, a look of dismay on his face as he realizes what's going on.] May He open to you the gates of Paradise and welcome you to everlasting joy. Father, look with compassion on Your servant Edward, who has trusted in Your promises. Welcome him to Your Kingdom in peace. By the authority which the Apostolic See has given me, I grant you a full pardon and remission of all your sins. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

[Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan tells his story, and the story of the "Babylon Curse," to Aldous Gajic.]
Jinxo: I was too young to fight in the Minbari War, so when I got the chance to work space construction, I jumped for it. The day I went to work on the Babylon Station�we didn't number them at first, you know�I thought that was the best day of my life! I worked a few months, had some leave, so I took it. And the station's infrastructure collapsed. Sabotaged. They never found out who.
Aldous Gajic: I remember.
Jinxo: So I went to work on the second one. The firm still owned my contract until the station was finished. I took leave a second time, and that station was sabotaged. And then when B3 blew up, well, that's when I got the name Jinxo. When I went to work on B4, I didn't take any leave! I was there every minute until we finished it. I thought the Curse was gone. But as I was leaving on the shuttle, I looked back...and the station just sort of...wrinkled, twisted like putty, and then just disappeared. The minute I left. So then when they decided to build B5, I had to work on it. And I have to stay. I have to!
Aldous: I'd say that you have the wrong nickname. They should have called you Lucky!
Jinxo: How do you figure?
Aldous: To have escaped the worst each time, that's a blessing. You're a very lucky man. Perhaps each time, you were exactly where you were meant to be.
Jinxo: [slowly smiling] I never thought of it like that.
Aldous: We never do.

[Threatened by the Mars Resistance, Garibaldi begs Lyta to force her way past his memory blocks.]
Lyta Alexander: Michael, if I do a deep scan, it could damage you.
Michael Garibaldi: And if you don't, they're gonna kill me. Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure I'm gonna get over being dead anytime soon.
. . .
[after she breaks the blocks and sees Garibaldi's memories]
Lyta: It's true. What he told us, it's all true.
Number One: Like that means a damn! How do we know that anything you say is the truth? You could be saying whatever the hell you want�
Lyta: What do YOU know about Hell? Hmm? [she turns to face Number One, her eyes completely black] Would you like me to show it to you? Mine and his?
[she telepathically projects Garibaldi's memories into Number One]
Number One: [recoils] It's true. Damned, it's true!

[Upon arrival, Bester finds his literary quip completely lost on a B5 security guard.]
Alfred Bester: Well, it's good to see they're continuing the fine tradition of hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool.

[upon seeing the Great Machine on Epsilon 3 for the first time]
Ivanova: Commander?
Sinclair: Yeah?
Ivanova: I think I've got to go to the bathroom.
Sinclair: Tell me about it!

[using the Great Machine, Ivanova "overhears" a conversation from the past]
Vice-President Clark: I have wanted Santiago dead for so long...I wasn't sure we could really pull it off. You're sure it's done?
Morden: EarthForce 1 will never return from Io. The power is now yours, Clark. Mister...President.

[various answers to Torqueman's final question: "Given the danger, at the end of the day...is it worth it?"]
Michael Garibaldi: Absolutely. Sure, when things get tense out here, we have to be careful. Our search of the Centauri vessels we captured proved that they were bringing in weapons of mass destruction, offloading them outside the station, and sending them on to the front lines. Now that we know that, we can make sure it doesn't happen any more. We learn. It's what humans do.
Londo Mollari: Misunderstandings aside, yes! I definitely think it's worth it. We must simply work harder to make sure we communicate with one another to prevent this sort of tragic situation from ever happening again! A violent attack by Narn forces is an unacceptable response to a peaceful protest by my government. And with the intervention of Earth, perhaps we can keep them from making a similar mistake in the future.
G'Kar: I don't know any more. I used to think so, but now...
Susan Ivanova: Yes.
Delenn: Of course it is. For the simple reason that no one else would ever build a place like this. Humans share one unique quality: They build communities. If the Narns or Centauri or any other race built a station like this, it would be used only by their own people. But everywhere humans go, they create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. It is a great gift, and a terrible responsibility--one that cannot be abandoned.
Senator Quantrell: Well...I guess we'll just have to see...won't we?
Franklin: All right, Med 2--go, go! Look, if we weren't here right now, half the people in this room would be dead! Now that should be a good enough answer for anyone.
Eduardo Delvientos: Sure! What, are you kidding? I have a retirement pension to make, you know?
John Sheridan: Yes. But not for any of the reasons that you've probably been told. The job of Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace. It's to create the peace. And this place was built on the assumption that we could work out our problems and build a better future. And that, to me, is the key issue. See, in the last few years, we've stumbled. We stumbled at the death of the President, the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you...you start looking at your feet. Well, we have to make people...lift their eyes back to the horizon, and see the line of ancestors behind us, saying, "Make my life have meaning." And to our inheritors before us, saying, "Create the world we will live in." I mean, w-we're not just...holding jobs and having dinner. We are in the process of building the future. That's what Babylon 5 is all about.