Top 500 Pierce Brown Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It is no great thing to die. Not when one has lived.” -Ragnar Volarus.”

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102. “The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.” She laughs. “You mock him for Cicero and then spit out Plato.”

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103. “When I looked up at my father as a boy, I thought being a man was having control. Being the master and commander of your own destiny. 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. I’m tired of people doubting. Of people choosing to believe they know what is possible because of what has happened before.”

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104. “But that is the noble lie of demokracy, isn’t it? The belief in humanity, even though humanity is a screaming, selfish mob.”

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105. “They call her Six, meaning she’s always got your back.”

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106. “What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read.” Romulus thumps his chest. “Honor is what you do.”

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107. “They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.”

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108. “Dead kids are the loose change of war.”

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109. “Humans, no matter their Color, are fragile as doves in the meat grinder of war.”

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

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111. “The legends say that the god Mars was the parent of tears, foe to dance and lute.”

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112. “She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I couldn’t own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides.”

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113. “There is a flower that grows on Mars. It is red and harsh and fit for our soil. It is called haemanthus. It means “blood blossom.”

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114. “You! Troll!” Sevro shouts. “I’m a terrorist warlord! Stop throwing me. You made me drop by candy!”

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115. “All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fellow students – I must not let that change. I must not become like them. I’ll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.”

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116. “It’s gonna be a hell of a day. A hell of a day.”

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117. “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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118. “I kept looking for hope in the world. Expecting the world to supply deliverance if I plucked the right chords. Demanding that it supply validation to my labor if I just gave enough effort. But that is not the nature of the world. Its nature is to consume. In time, it will consume us all, and the spheres will spin until they too are consumed when our sun dies. Maybe that is the point of it. Knowing that though one day darkness will cover all, at least your eyes were open to see moments of light.”

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119. “I do not answer to a scarless Pixie whelp. I am a Peerless Scarred. ArchPrimus of the 542nd class of the Institute of Mars. I answer to the ArchGovernor alone.”

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120. “Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”

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121. “We’re all just wounded souls stumbling about in the dark, desperately trying to stitch ourselves together, hoping to fill the holes they ripped in us.”

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122. “The measure of a man is what he does when he has power,” I say loudly.”

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123. “She’s an engineer of oppression, and one of the best minds of Gold. And she tried to kill Sevro. Bad play.”

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124. “Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution.”

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125. “Fear rides in me. Fear of so many things. Fear of letting down my friends, of losing my friends.”

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126. “A man thinks he can fly, but he is afraid to jump. A poor friend pushes him from behind.” He looks up at me. “A good friend jumps with.”

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127. “I’ll be Odysseus. You be Achilles.” “Achilles dies in the end.” “Then learn from his mistakes.”

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128. “It’s not victory that makes a man. It’s his defeats.”

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129. “Asgard has fallen. The gods are dead. The old oaths have been broken. And tell all who will hear: the Valkyrie ride to war.”

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130. “What kind of a parent would want their children to have servants? The moment a child thinks it is entitled to anything, they think they deserve everything.”

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131. “She listens because she’s heard enough noise to know that truth, if it ever appears, creeps in on quiet little feet.”

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132. “And what was that about blood brothers? That means absolutely nothing. You might as well have said you were pinecone cousins.”

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133. “Manners, brother; when at the mercy of your enemies, petulance demeans your entity.”

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134. “Laughter spews from between my teeth. I would die for the truth that all men are created equal. But in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper.”

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135. “Before I sleep, I drink a tonic laden with processing enhancers and speed-listen to The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly’s Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I wake knowing three thousand years of literature and legal code and history.”

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136. “She would have lived in peace, Darrow, but you have brought her nothing but war.”

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137. “What a beautiful mess we could have made of each other.”

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138. “Better to go into that world in the full glory of some passion than to fade and wither with age. Live fast. Die young, my wayward friend.”

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139. “We grew together, and now are grown. In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.”

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140. “There is evil in us, as there is good. But we do not regret our good as we do our evil. So we know what we are, my daughter. We know what we are.”

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141. “There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. The faces sparkle with fool’s gold.”

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142. “Polemides is Greek for “child of war.”

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143. “Dancer, Darrow is like a stallion, one of the old stallions of Earth. Beautiful beasts that will run as hard as you push them. They will run. And run. And run. Until they don’t. Until their hearts explode.”

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

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145. “El fuego de la victoria me arde en las venas.”

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146. “Woe to those who cross my shadow.”

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147. “Love and war. Same coin. Different sides. I’m too wrinkled for either.” “Maybe war will breathe some life into your old bones.” “Well, I tried love last month.” He leans close. “Didn’t work like it used to.”

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148. “The dead can always hear us, my love. Why else do you think we sing? We want them to know that even though they are gone, we can still find joy.”

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149. “Rise so high, in mud you lie.”

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150. “Forgetting is essential to learning, just as exhaling is essential to breathing. Breathe out, then in. Find the self, then lose it once again. Thus, the path goes ever onward.”

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