Dragon Ball Z quotes

62 quotes from 17 characters across a 291-episode series. Every quote here is also available as JSON from the Animechan API.

Vegeta 25 quotes

  • *To Android 19* Just as I thought... you're nothing. Silly robot, you really think you have a chance against a super saiyan like me? Your brain must be malfunctioning. Fresh out of the factory with no warranty and already broken. What a pity.
  • There’s no such thing as fair or unfair in battle. There is only victory or in your case, defeat.
  • Death by a god of death, this may be a proud moment.
  • I’ll never give in to you circus freaks!
  • Never send a boy to do a mans job.
  • Are you ready now to witness a power not seen for thousands of years?
  • Kakarot, you’re quite impressive. I never stood a chance against Buu, you’re the only one who can fight him. I think I finally understand how a genius like myself can’t surpass you. I thought it was because you had something to protect. I thought your drive to protect allowed you to take advantage of your capabilities… this may have been a reason, but not I too have this drive. I fought to do as I wished, because it was fun to kill my enemies and feed my pride. But he’s different, he fights not to win but because he absolutely won’t lose, causing him to break his limits and he really doesn’t care who his opponent is. So when he didn’t kill me, it was because he saw I could care for others, like I do now… Go Kakarot, you’re number one!
  • What’s wrong Frieza? Is your brain another one of your weak and under used muscles?
  • Even the mightiest warriors experience fears. What makes them a true warrior is the courage that they posses to overcome their fears.
  • I do not fear this new challenge, rather like a true warrior I will rise to meet it.
  • Trunks, I never hugged you as a baby… let me hug you.
  • He has beaten me completely. First by his own actions and then through his son’s. And what has he left for me here? How? How could you die like that? How, Kakarot? I’ll never have the chance…to prove my strength against you. You died without fear. What does that make of me? I am no warrior. And I will never fight again.
  • While I’m here wasting time, how hard is Kakarot training?
  • Strength is the only thing that matters in this world. Everything else is just a delusion for the weak.
  • You can take control of my mind and my body, but there is one thing a Saiyan always keep… his PRIDE!
  • Trunks, Bulma, I’m doing this for you. And yes, even for you, Kakarot.
  • There’s only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all!
  • How could I let this happen to my son? He has sacrificed everything for me! And I have done nothing but ignore him!
  • Every time I reach a new level of strength, a greater power appears to challenge my authority. It’s as if fate is laughing at me with a big stupid grin, just like Kakarot.
  • Push through the pain, giving up hurts more.
  • Let me ask you. Does a machine like yourself ever experience fear?
  • No, I can’t lose!
  • Where is your honor!? Like all pure-blooded Saiyans, Kakarot would rather die fighting than win with one of those disgraceful senzu beans as his crutch! Kakarot trained in the hyperbolic time chamber just as we did! Now let’s see what he can do!
  • Kakarot… please… destroy Frieza… He made me what I am. Don’t… let him… do it… to anyone else. Whatever it take… Stop him… Please.
  • I find it hard to believe that my cells are in your body. How could you have turned out so ugly? What a waste. Although, it’s obvious where you’ve gotten most of your strength.

Goku 8 quotes

  • Power comes in response to a need, not a desire. You have to create that need.
  • An angel? So Whis is an angel? But he’s got no wings, and his butt’s not hanging out.
  • The ocean is so salty because everyone pees in it.
  • Me personally, I like to work and train.
  • I could go one step farther If I wanted to.
  • If I win, promise you won’t destroy the earth.
  • Your new form is burning through more power than your body can supply. You should hav ewaited until you were used to this form and knew how to regulate it before you started picking fights.
  • I would rather be a brainless monkey than a heartless monster.

Piccolo 6 quotes

  • Gohan, you showed me that power is nothing without being guided without love.
  • You’ll laugh at your fears when you find out who you are.
  • My ears do more than just frame my face.
  • Sometimes, we have to look beyond what we want and do what’s best.
  • Even with the energy you took from me, my power is still far greater than your own.
  • I’m not going to lie to you, Vegeta, although the answer may be difficult for you to hear. This is the truth. Goku devoted his life to protecting the lives of other. Because of his selflessness, when he died, he was allowed to keep his body and travel to King Kai’s Planet. You, on the other hand, have spent your life in pursuit of your own selfish desires. You’ve caused too much pain. When you die, you will not receive the same reward.

Beerus 6 quotes

  • It seems Saiyans have changed since the last time I saw them. They have become cowardly.
  • Before creation… must come destruction!
  • Now all that is left is the destruction of earth, but I think it would be a waste to destroy it. The food of this planet is very delicious.
  • Anyone stronger than the god of destruction does not exist.
  • Nobody preaching about justice is ever a good guy.
  • I am a god with a heart, but there’s one thing I cannot tolerate… people who don’t pay their proper respect to others.

Bulma Briefs 2 quotes

  • Look Goku, you can go out in public and have your hair sticking out in every direction if you want to, but not me!
  • Yamcha, I was worried about you. For all I knew, you were dead in a ditch in a country you can’t pronounce. You’ll have to make this up to me. And you’re going to enjoy it.

Krillin 2 quotes

  • Hey hun! I’ve got a great idea, let’s trade! Yo take my spot and I’ll fight Hercule!
  • First we’re the milkmen, and now we’re stinkin’ farmers. We never did this in Orin Temple.

Whis 2 quotes

  • Well, I wonder what the prince would do if he knew, you authorized Planet Vegeta’s destruction from the start?
  • You failed to protect your planet, because of your own leniency. The only way to avoid this outcome is to send Frieza back to his flower garden.

Android 17 2 quotes

  • Tell me, are all you Saiyans so full of yourselves? Is this how you hide your incompetence? We androids will always be superior to your kind.
  • A beautiful speech, I can see it now, you truly are a prince with the royal blood of a Saiyan.

Master Roshi 1 quote

  • You will not go in there with hopes of winning the tournament the first time you compete. To do so would be arrogant! And arrogance is for fools, not warriors! So you will enter the tournament with the sole purpose of improving your fighting skills.

Trunks 1 quote

  • You’re about to find out what it’s like to fight a real super saiyan… and I’m not talking about Goku.

Grand Elder Guru 1 quote

  • Death is simply another stage of our life.

Black Goku 1 quote

  • I am looking at things from a much higher perspective than you. I observe this world, this universe, the truth of all things. And I have realized that humans must be destroyed. Out of all which the gods have made, mortals are their sole failure. In order to make this world, this universe, into a beautiful utopia, I must remove humanity, in place of the gods who refuse to admit their mistake.

Frieza 1 quote

  • There are three things I cannot tolerate: cowardice, bad haircuts, and military insurrection. It is very unfortunate that our friend Vegeta possesses all three of these.

Hercule 1 quote

  • I vowed that earth would forever remain in peace. Since I made that vow, not a single threat has been made against earth. That’s all thanks to the fact that my name is known through the entire galaxy.

Gowasu 1 quote

  • Even If evil makes you lose your way, you stay your ground and keep searching for the path of good. Is that search now what justice is? It is for that reason that gods gave mortals knowledge.

Frost 1 quote

  • I start wars, resolve them myself, then I buy up the war ravaged lands for a low prince and make a killing off redevelopment and reconstruction concessions!It is a brilliant scheme.

Android 16 1 quote

  • Gohan, let it go. It is not a sing to fight for the right cause. There are those who words alone will not reach.

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About Dragon Ball Z

Five years after winning the World Martial Arts tournament, Gokuu is now living a peaceful life with his wife and son. This changes, however, with the arrival of a mysterious enemy named Raditz who presents himself as Gokuu's long-lost brother. He reveals that Gokuu is a warrior from the once powerful but now virtually extinct Saiyan race, whose homeworld was completely annihilated. When he was sent to Earth as a baby, Gokuu's sole purpose was to conquer and destroy the planet; but after suffering amnesia from a head injury, his violent and savage nature changed, and instead was raised as a kind and well-mannered boy, now fighting to protect others. With his failed attempt at forcibly recruiting Gokuu as an ally, Raditz warns Gokuu's friends of a new threat that's rapidly approaching Earth—one that could plunge Earth into an intergalactic conflict and cause the heavens themselves to shake. A war will be fought over the seven mystical dragon balls, and only the strongest will survive in Dragon Ball Z.

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