Top 40 Drew Karpyshyn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Glory is of no use to the dead -Darth Bane.”

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2. “Power comes with a price. It’s a burden. It demands sacrifice.”

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3. “Take what makes you weak and turn it into something that makes you strong.”

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4. “Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.”

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5. “Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.”

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6. “I will continue to study at your feet, Master. I will learn from your wisdom. I will discover your secrets, unlocking them one by one until everything you know – all your knowledge and all your power – is mine. And once you are no longer of use to me, I will destroy you. One day I will surpass you. And on that day I will kill you, Lord Bane. But that day is not today.”

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7. “Honor is a fool’s prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.”

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8. “Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.”

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9. “We Mandalorians have a saying,” Canderous explained. “A warrior who doesn’t hope for battle has no hope during battle.”

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10. “Equality is a lie,” Bane told her. “A myth to appease the masses. Simply look around and you will see the lie for what it is! There are those with power, those with the strength and will to lead. And there are those meant to follow – those incapable of anything but servitude and a meager, worthless existence. “Equality is a perversion of the natural order!”

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11. “The dark side is about survival. It’s about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual.”

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12. “Don’t count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves.”

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13. “If all are equal, then none is strong.”

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14. “The Jedi shackle themselves in chains of obedience: obedience to the Jedi Council; obedience to their Masters; obedience to the Republic. Those who follow the light side even believe they must submit themselves to the Force. They are merely instruments of its will, slaves to a greater good.”

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15. “Turian Councilor: Ah yes, Reapers. The immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. We have dismissed that claim.”

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16. “Killing without reason or gain was a petty pleasure of sadistic fools.”

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17. “When all the options are wrong,” he muttered to himself in the darkness, “what does it matter which one I choose?”

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18. “What happened to the others?” she wanted to know. “I killed them,” he replied. Zannah seemed to think about this for a moment before shrugging indifferently. “Then they were weak,” she said with simple conviction. “And they deserved to die.”

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19. “The best cure for one’s own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.”

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20. “He no longer clung to the simplistic ideals of right and wrong or good and evil. He understood better than anyone that dark and light were intertwined in strange and complex ways.”

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21. “Destroying your enemies – even destroying a planet – was understandable. But this wasn’t simple destruction. It was annihilation; obliteration. The very fabric of the Force had been shredded. Anyone capable of turning an entire planet into a nihilistic abomination had to be completely mad.”

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22. “For me, Malak was always the ‘brawn’ to Revan’s ‘brain’ – he was renowned for his combat abilities, and I always felt that he was even better than Revan with a lightsaber. I also felt that he wasn’t as strong at using the Force in other ways as Revan was.”

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23. “Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The Dark Side is about survival. It’s about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual.”

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24. “The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. “You’re right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It’s not like sabacc; you can’t fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you’re dealt.”

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25. “Yeah, how dare they try to kill you in the middle of a war? Don’t they know you’re busy trying to kill them? How rude!”

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26. “Are you certain of these accusations?” “I would stake my life on them, my lord Emperor.” “You already have.”

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27. “When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.”

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28. “It was the irrepressible Twi’lek who finally said what they were all thinking but didn’t have the courage to bring up. “You know you both naked, right?”

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29. “By its very nature, the dark side invites rivalry and strife. This is the greatest strength of the Sith: it culls the weak from our order.”

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30. “One Master and one apprentice; one to embody the power, the other to crave it.”

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31. “There was a long silence, finally broken by Teff’ith. “Jedi Grand Master mom, Supreme Commander dad. Now we get why Theron’s so messed up. So you sending a fleet, or what?”

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32. “Knowledge is power, Bane. My purpose is to give you that knowledge. It is up to you to figure out how best to use it.”

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33. “Those who ask for mercy,” he answered coldly, “are too weak to deserve it.”

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34. “The strong always stepped forward; the weak had no choice but to follow.”

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35. “All soldiers felt the same thing going into battle, whether they admitted it or not: fear. Fear of failure, fear of dying, fear of watching their friends die, fear of being wounded and living out the rest of their days crippled or maimed. The fear was always there, and it would devour you if you let it.”

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36. “Now you know why I told HK-Forty-seven he couldn’t come,” Revan told T3. “He’d probably try to clear a path through all these ‘meatbags’ with a flamethrower.”

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37. “There must only be two, No more and no less.”

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38. “If they managed to kill you, then you weren’t worthy of serving me,” Nyriss explained. “If you killed them, then you proved that they were a waste of resources. Either way, I would be left with the most suitable candidate for the job.”

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39. “Set wasn’t interested in ruling the galaxy. Or destroying the Jedi. It sounded like a lot of work.”

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40. “The vile beverage packed plenty of kick; he hadn’t had a hangover this bad since his wedding night. His head was spinning, his eyes were blurred, and his mouth tasted like he’d been chewing on bantha fur.”

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41. “He is human – they are a lesser species. Over the decades, the dark side has exacted too great a toll on his body. He is a hollow shell of what he once was.”

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42. “He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him.”

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43. “Denying or attempting to utterly control emotion, Revan felt, was a fool’s game. Jealousy was actually the result of ill-prepared Jedi being overwhelmed by feelings they had never learned to face. Revan believed Jedi could be taught to use positive emotions like love and happiness to strengthen their connection to the Force in the same way that hatred and anger gave power to those who followed the dark side.”

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44. “My name is not Des,” he said, his voice rising as he stood up to his full height so that he towered over Lucia. “I am Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith. I feel neither pity nor gratitude nor remorse. And Caleb’s daughter must pay for what she did to me.”

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