Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Momentum is everything to a Helldiver, to military endeavors, to life. Keep moving and dare someone to get in your path.”

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2. “Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain.”

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3. “You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil.”

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4. “In a storm, you don’t tie two boats together. They’ll drag each other down.”

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5. “I once thought the greatest sin of war was violence. It isn’t. The greatest sin is it requires good men to become practical.”

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6. “You want respect? Earn it.”

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7. “Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.”

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8. “Per aspera ad astra.” “Through the thorns to the stars.”

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9. “Omnis vir lupus.” Everyone a wolf.”

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10. “If you’re watching, Eo, it’s time to close your eyes. The Reaper has come. And he’s brought hell with him.”

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11. “Death begets death begets death.”

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12. “A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots. – LORN AU ARCOS.”

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13. “I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness.”

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14. “I am the Reaper and death is my shadow. -Darrow.”

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15. “The bonds that bind us together are stronger than the forces that pull us apart.”

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16. “I am Cassius Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, brother of Darrow, Morning Knight of the Solar Republic, and my honor remains.”

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17. “The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness, Lysander. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”

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18. “The Reaper has come. And he’s brought hell with him.”

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19. “Evil feeds on mercy.”

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20. “A hand is a peasant’s tool. A Gold’s tool is his mind.”

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21. “They call me the Morning Star. That star by which griffin-riders and travelers navigate the wastes in the dark months of winter. The last star that disappears when daylight returns in the spring.”

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22. “I am Cassius au Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, Morning Knight, and my honor remains.”

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23. “And it beats inside me, this terrible hope, as I know that the end has begun, and I am finally awake. “Break the chains,” I roar. And my people roar back.”

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24. “Liars make the best promises.”

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25. “Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.”

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26. “You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”

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27. “Tactics wins battles. Strategy wins wars.”

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28. “Darrow, Lancer of House Augustus. Rise, there are duties for you to fill. Rise, there are honors for you to take. Rise for glory, for power, for conquest and dominion over lesser men. Rise, my son. Rise.”

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29. “The Peerless Scarred know that dark deeds are carried through life. They cannot be outrun. They must be worn if one is to rule. This is their first lesson.”

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30. “Do not let fear touch you. Fear is the torrent. The raging river. To fight it is to break and drown. But to stand astride it is to see it, feel it, and use its course for your own whims.”

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31. “Those you protect will not see you. They will not understand you. But you are the Gray wall between civilization and chaos. And they stand safe in the shadow you cast. Do not expect praise or love. Their ignorance is proof of the success of your sacrifice. For we who serve the state, duty must be its own reward.”

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32. “This is war. And victory is the only nobility.”

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33. “Honor is not what you say. Honor is what you do.”

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34. “The destroyer of a civilization too often resembles its founders.”

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35. “There’s nothing like a mother’s fear.”

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36. “How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends.”

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37. “Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us.”

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38. “Everything she does, she means. There’s no falseness to her. No deception. So when she tells me she loves me, I know she means it with every part of her.”

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39. “The game is afoot. And finally, I begin to smile.”

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40. “No one grasps the game, because no one knows the rules. No one follows the same set of rules. It is like life. Some think honor universal. Some think laws binding. Others know better. But in the end, don’t those who rise by poison die by poison?” I shrug. “In the storybooks. In life there’s no one left to poison them, often.”

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41. “Reaper, Reaper, Reaper... All deeds that last are painted in blood.”

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42. “Hyrg la, Ragnar!”

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43. “Life is the most effective school ever created.”

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44. “They don’t care that the math doesn’t work. They don’t care that the young scream in protest and the old moan their same tired wisdoms. This is just a demonstration of their power. It is their power. They decide the winner. A game of merit won by birth. It keeps the hierarchy in place. It keeps us striving, but never conspiring.”

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45. “So let him do his worst. I am the Reaper. I know how to suffer. I know the darkness. This is not how it ends.”

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46. “Because hope is an opiate, not a plan.”

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47. “El poder hay que reclamarlo. Y la riqueza ganarla. El reinado, el dominio y el imperio se compra con sangre.”

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48. “And I order you to get drunk!” I roar to my army. They look at me like I am mad. “Get drunk?” one says. “Yes!” I cut him off before he can say more. “Can you manage that? Act like fools, for once?” “We’ll try,” Milia cries. “Won’t we?”

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49. “To free them, to protect them, we must be savages. So give me evil. Give me darkness. Make me the bloodydamn devil if we can bring even the faintest ray of light.”

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50. “Red is rising, Mickey.”

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