Cero Espada - Yammy Llargo [Rage]
"What are you dumbasses blabbering on about down there?! You think you're gonna take ME out?! Little pieces of trash like you?! Don't make me laugh."
- to Sado Yasutora, Kuchiki Rukia and Arabai Renji
"It's only gonna make the way you guys die all the messier."
Primera Espada - Coyōte Starrk [Solitude]
"Why do I have to fight with a strong guy like this? I always envied the weak. Whenever we made friends, their souls would waste away just from being near us. Because we were so alone, we split our soul in two. I don't know which was our original form. Or perhaps, it was neither. But this was the only way we had to escape from our isolation. I so envied the weak. The weak can always find others to be around. I want to be weak. And if that's impossible, I at least want to find companions who are as strong as I."
"I'm not alone. I'm not alone. I'm not alone any more..."
Primera Espada - Lilynette Gingerbuck [Starrk's counterpart]
"Let's be together, until the very end."
- to Coyōte Starrk
Segunda Espada - Baraggan Louisenbairn [Time]
"Old age, meaning time. The mightiest and most absolute power of death."
"Shinigami, humans, Hollows, Arrancar, all of their difference and strife, will, freedom, beasts, plants, the moon and stars and sun – all of it is meaningless! There is but one absolute in this world, and that is my power"
"You seem to be having difficulty grasping the nature of the ability I possess. Each of the Espada holds dominion over a different form of death. The ten different paths that can lead a human to death. This is reflected in their individual abilities, their ideologies, and forms the basis of their existence. Isolation. Sacrifice. Emptiness. Despair. Destruction. Intoxication. Insanity. Avarice. Rage. And the form of death over which I hold dominion is 'age'. 'Age', that is to say, 'time'. The greatest, and most absolute form. The death that inevitably awaits all things"
- to Soifon
"It matters not who you are or what manner of power you may possess. Before the power I wield, all beings are equal. Come. It is time that you too were reduced to naught but bones."
- to Ushōda Hachigen
Tres Espada - Tia Harribel [Sacrifice]
"Our existence is built upon the noble sacrifices made. Instead, you fall in battle from trying to protect your subordinates. My subordinates were not simply defeated. They left behind markers for me, on how to carry on the fight. If I had lost, my subordinates' sacrifices would have all been for nothing. I hold within me the resolve of those who sacrificed their lives."
- Histugaya Tōshirō
"I don't want to become stronger through the power I gain by killing and sacrificing another. If I can't win alone, then I'll win as a group."
- to Histugaya Tōshirō
"No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own."
- to Histugaya Tōshirō
Former Tres Espada - Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck
"There was a time when we ceased to be Human and became beasts. And then in becoming Arrancar, we regained our capacity for reason. One who possesses reason should require a reason to fight."
- to Nnoitra Gilga
"This isn't a reason to fight, but you hurt people who are very dear to me. So you're going to pay for it."
"This isn't a reason to fight! But you hurt people who were very dear to me! And you're going to pay for it!"
- to Nnoitra Gilga
Cuatro Espada - Ulquiorra Cifer [Emptiness]
"Do not ask any questions. Do not say anything. You have no rights. What you hold in your hand is the rope to the guillotine above your friends' necks. Nothing more. Understand, girl. This is not a negotiation, it's an order."
- to Inoue Orihime
"Owning a heart means throwing away ones life."
„What is a heart?"
"Even if you rise up a thousand times, there will be no victory for any of you."
- to Kurosaki Ichigo
"Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?"
- to Inoue Orihime
"Do not allow yourself to be shaken. Do not weaken your stance. Open your senses. And do not let your guard down for an instant."
- to Kurosaki Ichigo
"Your words are those of a man, who doesn't know true despair. If you don't know it, then allow me to teach you. This is the face of true despair."
- to Kurosaki Ichigo
Quinto Espada - Nnoitra Gilga [Despair]
"If I kill a thousand nobodies, who's gonna admit that I'm the strongest? There's no value in taking a nobody's life."
- to his Fracción
"This is a battle. Of course, it isn't fair! Fighting, after all, is a monster born from unfairness and intolerance. […] We make enemies for all sorts of reasons, and from the moment you make an enemy, until one of you draws his last breath - you're in a battle."
- to Inoue Orihime
"Every fuckin' one of 'em, they have the gall to take pity on me. And they don't even know how much they're hurtin' me by doin' it. I don't do "mercy". Strong, weak, infant, monster. I just smash 'em all to pieces. I don't give 'em the chance to get up a second time."
"Oh, I've got purpose all right. I fight for the sake of fighting."
- to Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck
"I wanna be cut so that my breath is gone before my body hits the ground. That's the kind of death I wanna have."
Sexta Espada - Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez [Destruction]
"The one who remains standing will return alive… That's all it comes down to."
"We just kill them. Kill them all."
Séptima Espada - Zommari Rureaux [Intoxication]
"Everything holds sovereignty over something else."
"Everything is 'governed' by its rightful master. Subordinates act under the orders of their superiors. The masses live under the rule of their king. The clouds move according to the will of the wind. The moonlight is ruled by the light of the sun."
- to Kuchiki Byakuya
"You Shinigami cut us down as though it were simply the natural way of things! Do you truly think yourself gods?! Who exactly gave you the right to cut down the Hollows?! Is it because we feed upon the humans?! Why, then who gave you the right to protect those humans?! Nay! Nobody has granted you the right to undertake any of this! You Shinigami label us as evil, and thoughtlessly slice us down purely because in your arrogance, you fancy yourselves to be the purveyors of some great 'justice' of your own making!"
- to Kuchiki Byakuya
Octava Espada - Szayelaporro Granz [Madness]
"Immortality. That is what it means to be perfect. Not the transcendence of death, but rather capturing one's life and death within the cycle of rebirth."
"For inferior beings like you to irritate me to this extent and even force me to fight you at my full strength... Now, THAT is what I would call a 'bad joke'."
- to Arabai Renji and Ishida Uryū
"My, my. Just by teasing you a little, just by surprising you a little, you become blind to all but that which lies before your eyes. Everybody is the same in that respect. They are all just as inferior. If you want to know what reason Aizen-sama could have for destroying you all... why, that 'inferiority' itself is your sin."
- to Arabai Renji and Ishida Uryū
"Do you understand what I am telling you? Using this ability, I am able to impregnate myself into my enemies, and thus I can be ever reborn into a new body. Just as the Phoenix, the immortal bird, engulfs itself in flames once it reaches old age and is reborn, its life begun anew, from the midst of those flames. Do you realize now? Immortality. This is its most absolute form. One does not attempt to escape death, but accepts it as one's due, and allows life's cycle to continue, not allowing that death to bring an end to one's own existence. Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'! For one such as me, the concept of 'death' as an end to life simply holds no meaning. You may kill me, but in defiance of the finality of death, I will simply arise once more. Now do you understand? It is impossible for you to truly kill me. As such, you have no means to achieve victory in this battle."
- to Kurotsuchi Mayuri
Noveno Espada - Aaroniero Arruruerie [Greed]
"If it's about our faces, keep it to yourself. We got tired of hearing people's thoughts about them a very long time ago."
- to Kuchiki Rukia