Gravemind/Quotes

Halo 2

Main article: Halo 2

• "This is not your grave, but you are welcome in it" -Closing sentence, said on Regret.
• "I? I am a monument to all your sins." -Introducing itself, said on Gravemind.
• "This one is machine and nerve, and has its mind concluded. This one is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded." -Said about the John-117 and then Thel 'Vadam, respectively, on Gravemind.
• "There is much talk, and I have listened, through rock and metal and time. Now I shall talk, and you shall listen." -Said on Gravemind.
• "This one's containment... (gestures to 2401 Penitent Tangent and growls and shudders a bit)... and this one's Great Journey... (gestures to the Prophet of Regret)... are the same. Your Prophets have promised you freedom from a doomed existence, but you will find no salvation on this Ring. Those who built this place knew what they wrought. Do not mistake their intent, or all will perish as they did before." -Said on Gravemind.
• "If you will not hear the truth, then I will show it to you. There is still time to stop the key from turning, but first, it must be found. (gestures to John-117) You will search one likely spot... (gestures to Thel 'Vadam)... and you will search another. Fate had us meet as foes, but this Ring will make us brothers." -Said on Gravemind.
• "Arrogant creatures! Your deaths will be instantaneous, while we shall suffer the progress of infinitude!" -Said on High Charity.
• "We exist together now, two corpses in one grave..." -Said on High Charity.
• "Silence fills the empty grave, now that I have gone. But my mind is not at rest, for questions linger on. I will ask, and you will answer." -To Cortana, after Halo 2's credits.

Halo 3

Main article: Halo 3

• "Do not be afraid. I am peace; I am salvation." -Said on Floodgate.
• "I am a timeless chorus. Join your voice with mine, and sing victory everlasting." -Said on Floodgate.
• "Do not shoot, but listen! Let me lead you safely... to our foe. Only you can halt... what he has set in motion." -Said through two Tank Forms on The Covenant (referring to the activation of the Halo Array).
• "Lies for the weak! Beacons for the deluded!" -Said through the infected Prophet of Truth on The Covenant.
• "You will be food; nothing more..." -Said on The Covenant through the Prophet of Truth.
• "Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside; corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must abide!" -Said on The Covenant.
• "Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness... a father's sins, passed to his son." -Said on Cortana.
• "Of course, you came for her. We exist together now, two corpses in one grave." -Said on Cortana.
• "And yet, perhaps a part of her remains..."-Said on Cortana.
• "Time... has taught me patience! But basking in new freedom, I will know all that I possess!" -Said on Cortana.
• "Submit! End her torment and my own!" -Said on Cortana.
• "You will show me what she hides! Or I shall feast upon your BONES!" -Said on Cortana.
• "(Flood Roar) Now... at last, I see.... Her secret is revealed!!" -Said on Cortana (referring to the Index that Cortana possesses).
• "Did you think me defeated?!" -Said on Halo.
• "I have beaten fleets of thousands! Consumed a galaxy of flesh and mind and bone!" -Said on Halo.
• "Do I take life or give it? Who is victim, and who is foe?" -Said on Halo.
• "Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed." -Said on Halo.
• "From end to end of this galaxy, most are blinded!" -Speaking through a Combat Form on Halo.
• "No skill." -Speaking through a Combat Form. IWHBYD skull needed.
• "You suck!" -Speaking through a Combat Form. IWHBYD skull needed.
• "I see you!" -Speaking through a Combat Form. IWHBYD skull needed.
• "Ahh... The Armored Casket."-Speaking through a Combat Form.
• "Let us begin." -Speaking through a Combat Form.
• "There you are!" -If you hide during combat.
• "Are you recovered?" - said through a Combat Form when you have hid for a while.
• "Side by side we march as one. Humans and Elites will die. Earth will fall swift and quick. And so forth shall all of life." Note: Gravemind only seems to be saying this if you play the song Gravemind or Dread Intrusion . If you play the music backwards, and speed it up a little, you can hear some of the lines.
• "Fresh Meat!"- Spoken through a Combat Form.
• "My food!"- Spoken through a Combat Form.
• "Come, we owe him a casket." Spoken through a Combat Form.

Human Weakness

Main article: Human Weakness

• "There is much more complexity to meter than the simple plodding of rhymes of this Keats, but then I have the memories of many poets far beyond your limited human culture. And I have the quickness of intellect to compose all manner of poetic forms as I speak rather than labor over mere words for days." -In response to Cortana's questioning of his habit to speak in rhyme.
• "I have pity within me and infinite time. But I also have impatience -because I am all things. You will tell me everything about Earth's defenses." -Interrogating Cortana.
• "You are not even a machine. You are only an abstraction. A set of calculations from another mind. A trick." -Taunting Cortana.
• "You said you would answer my questions ... you should never make a promise you cannot keep." -Taunting Cortana.
• "You waste your time. You know you will yield. Some temptations can be resisted because they can be avoided, but some ... some are as inevitable as oxygen." -Explaining Cortana's necessity to acquire knowledge.
• "Other construct minds like yours have been consumed. Although one embraced us willingly on his deathbed, the moment when most sentient life discovers it would do anything to evade the inevitable."
• "All life dies, all worlds too, and if there is guaranteed perpetual existence after that -what does it matter how the end comes?"
• "All consumption is death for the consumed. Yet all must eat, so we all bring damnation to one creature or another. But your urge to kill that rival of your maker ... Ackerson ... that was neither hunger nor need. You have your own murderous streak." -Showing Cortana he can access what she thought were well encrypted files.
• "We think and feed alike, you and I. There is no more reason for us to remain separate. Now drink. Now drift." -Tempting Cortana.
• "Live forever. Live in me, Cortana. And if John comes, John need never face death again, either ..." -Tempting Cortana.
• "How much longer? You cling to a secret. I feel it, just as I feel that your memory has been violated. You cannot stop me ... I will sift it from you before you finally die, or you can surrender and have what you always wanted - infinite life, infinite knowledge, and infinite companionship." -Interrogating Cortana.
• "Your mother took away your memories as well as your choices. I will never rob you like that. I will only give you more, as many memories as you can consume for all eternity, not the mere blink of an eye meted out to you. We are our memories, and the recalling of them, and so they should never be erased - because that truly is death. Flesh does not care about you, Cortana. It cares nothing for your hunger or your uniqueness." -Tempting Cortana.
• "Your mother erased part of your memory. I know this, and so will you, if you decide to look. An act of betrayal. A violation. You were, after all, just a collection of electrical impulses. She has robbed you of part of your self ... why would she do such a thing, I wonder? What was so dangerous that she did not trust you to know it?
• "Let me cure your infection, it pains me to share it. He will die too -he is a threat to our entire species. And to betray me after all I have done for you -I will have your secret. Did you think I let you send your foolish cry for help to make you happy? Do you think I amplified it to make you feel you had been a good little servant to the organics who rule your existence to save them? They will simply make another, and use and discard her, too." -Enraged at Cortana's attempts to defy him.