Galan (Earth-616)/Quotes

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Quotes by Galan (Earth-616)

No longer must I scour the cosmos alone. Let it be known throughout all existence that Galactus is allied with another.

--Galan (Earth-616)

You get to be Squirrel Girl. You get to make her decisions.

--Galan (Earth-616)

I have come from the farthest reaches of space -- to proclaim the doom of the human race!

--Galan (Earth-616)

There. Now I know what it knew. The name of the enemy.

--Galan (Earth-616)

I have felt it, Traveler. This new power of mine... I can... feel the universe pulling me toward a purpose of its own design. I know... too many things. Soon I will outgrow this form... and I grow... hungry. So do what you must. But as one who has gazed into it and yet lived... I know but one thing about the nature of universal balance. You cannot defeat the dark... with darkness.

--Galan (Earth-616)

Our race must die-- in a manner befitting Taa!

--Galan (Earth-616)

You exist solely by the grace I have given and the leash you tug against. Or have you forgotten whom you serve, Little God?!

--Galan (Earth-616)

I did not happen upon Asgard. I did not come here for asylum... if you are to be my end, Thunder God... then we will kill the Black Winter together. And when we are done... I would have you close. So that I may have words with thee. Until then... rise... Herald of Thunder!

--Galan (Earth-616)

My journey is ended! This planet shall sustain me until it has been drained of all elemental life! So speaks Galactus!

--Galan (Earth-616)

Behold the...SILVER SURFER, HERALD TO GALACTUS!

--Galan (Earth-616)

Oh, my naïve child. These beings die for the highest of callings -- to keep me alive. Such is the way of things. Such has been prophesied. I cannot have you driven mad by this. So those memories must go.

--Galan (Earth-616)

My journey is ended! This planet shall sustain me until it has been drained of all elemental life! So speaks Galactus!

--Galan (Earth-616)

I am Galactus. The be-all and end-all am I!

--Galan (Earth-616)

It is your understanding I seek -- and not your enmity!

--Galan (Earth-616)

... On my word, we'll trouble you no more.

--Galan (Earth-616)

I have need of a new Herald...

--Galan (Earth-616)

I am power incarnate! To Galactus, nothing is impossible!

--Galan (Earth-616)

Galactus does what Galactus must to survive.

--Galan (Earth-616)

I know not who or what they are below! I only know Galactus must feed!

--Galan (Earth-616)

Human suffering is irrelevant to me!

--Galan (Earth-616)

What business has Thanos of Titan with mighty Galactus?

--Galan (Earth-616)

Thanos thinks to scare me off with parlor tricks, he has yet to face me in all my might. Then we shall see if he is truly the "god" he claims to be.

--Galan (Earth-616)

This is no concern of yours, former herald. Begone!

--Galan (Earth-616)

Who are you? Who is so ignorant as to confront Galactus in his sanctum?

--Galan (Earth-616)

A bonding. Go forth, woman warrior. This day you are a healer. Your patient: All reality.

--Galan (Earth-616)

I am displeased, Morg. You have destroyed one of my Creations. Such an Act is my Decision, not yours. You have overstepped your bounds.

--Galan (Earth-616)

Who is the greater evil, Starchilde... I, the devourer of life that has run its course... or you, who denies existence to generations of the future?

--Galan (Earth-616)

No living thing dares ignore my call. For I am that which has always been, since this Universe was birthed from the ashes of the last. I am the hunger that dooms worlds. I am he who is beyond such frail Concepts as good and evil. I am Galactus.

--Galan (Earth-616)

Galactus... Hungers.

--Galan (Earth-616)

I am inevitable. I am... Destiny. I am Galactus and I hunger.

--Galan (Earth-616)

I HUNGER!

--Galan (Earth-616)

Know me, Annihilus. Know me...and KNOW FEAR.

--Galan (Earth-616)

On our level, combat is a metaphor. A clash of ideas. By existing in this form, I damage your narrow systems -- your boundaries and categories. They lose your meaning. You lose your -- and by proving myself -- unnh -- the stronger of the two of us -- I damage you further. Retreat, ordered one, before I break your precious worldview into pieces.

--Galan (Earth-616)

I... I... hunger.

--Galan (Earth-616)

Are you saying you did not summon Omnipotentis the Cosmic Omnivore?

--Galan (Earth-616)

Who... who did this? Who could do this? Who chained the Cosmos?

--Galan (Earth-616)

This is why I am here. This is the death I have seen foreshadowed. Mad gods have come to destroy us all. The Celestials have arrived.

--Galan (Earth-616)

Conversations with Galan (Earth-616)

Pastor Mike	Please. Please. We beg of you -- have mercy. Have mercy on all our souls.
Galactus	No.

— Mighty Thor #6

Galactus	The fate of your world lies in your survival, and you wish to risk your life and the lives of everyone on earth on a fool's errand?
Mr. Fantastic	I can't watch this and do nothing-- I have to try.
Galactus	Then do what you must......as will I.

— Fantastic Four #586

        "Of what import are brief, nameless lives to... Galactus??"