Neon Genesis Evangelion quotes

24 quotes from 9 characters across a 26-episode series. Every quote here is also available as JSON from the Animechan API.

Kaworu Nagisa 5 quotes

  • Humans cannot create anything out of nothingness. Humans cannot accomplish anything without holding onto something. After all, humans are not gods.
  • Humans constantly feel pain in their hearts. Because the heart is so sensitive to pain, humans also feel that to live is to suffer.
  • Are you afraid of other people? I know that by keeping others at a distance you avoid a betrayal of your trust, but you must endure the loneliness. Man can never completely erase this sadness, because all men are fundamentally alone. Pain is something man must carry in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily, some believe that life is pain.
  • The thread of human hope is spun with the flax of sorrow.
  • Songs are good. Singing brings us joy. It is the highest point in the culture that Lilims have created.

Souryuu Asuka Langley 5 quotes

  • You're thinking in Japanese! If you must think, do it in German!
  • This is the impenetrable wall of Jericho third child. Take one step over this wall, and you will be a dead man.
  • It is simply the duty of the elite to protect the ignorant masses.
  • [naked and smiling at Shinji] Hey Shinji, you idiot! Want to become of one mind and one body?
  • My mind is being eaten away... Kaji-san, it's unravelling my mind! What do I do? It's defiling my mind!

Shinji Ikari 4 quotes

  • No one can justify life by linking happy moments into a rosary.
  • I still don't know where to find happiness. But I'll continue to think about whether it's good to be here... whether it was good to have been born. But in the end, it's just realizing the obvious over and over again. Because I am myself.
  • [after masturbating over Asuka's comatose body] I'm so fucked up.
  • Mankind has no time left.

Misato Katsuragi 3 quotes

  • So fucking what if I'm not you?! That doesn't mean it's okay for you to give up! If you do, I'll never forgive you as long as I live. God knows I'm not perfect either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times. A cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself.
  • This is your home now, so make yourself comfortable. And take advantage of everything here, except me.
  • Survivability takes priority.

Ryoji Kaji 2 quotes

  • If you know pain and hardship, it's easier to be kind to others.
  • Understanding 100% of everything is impossible. That's why we spend all our lives trying to understand the thinking of others. That's what makes life so interesting.

Rei Ayanami 2 quotes

  • Those who hate themselves, cannot love or trust others.
  • Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the Darkness.

Yui Ikari 1 quote

  • As long as one person still lives...it shall be proof eternal that mankind ever existed.

Touji Suzuhara 1 quote

  • It's overpriced, but that's okay, HERE'S YOUR CHANGE!

Ritsuko Akagi 1 quote

  • The interaction of men and women isn't very logical.

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About Neon Genesis Evangelion

Fifteen years after a cataclysmic event known as the Second Impact, the world faces a new threat: monstrous celestial beings called "Angels" invade Tokyo-3 one by one. Mankind is unable to defend themselves against the Angels despite utilizing their most advanced munitions and military tactics. The only hope for human salvation rests in the hands of NERV, a mysterious organization led by the cold Gendou Ikari. NERV operates giant humanoid robots dubbed "Evangelions" to combat the Angels with state-of-the-art advanced weaponry and protective barriers known as Absolute Terror Fields. Years after being abandoned by his father, Shinji Ikari, Gendou's 14-year-old son, returns to Tokyo-3. Shinji undergoes a perpetual internal battle against the deeply buried trauma caused by the loss of his mother and the emotional neglect he suffered at the hands of his father. Terrified to open himself up to another, Shinji's life is forever changed upon meeting 29-year-old Misato Katsuragi, a high-ranking NERV officer who shows him a free-spirited maternal kindness he has never experienced. A devastating Angel attack forces Shinji into action as Gendou reveals his true motive for inviting his son back to Tokyo-3: Shinji is the only child capable of efficiently piloting Evangelion Unit-01, a new robot that synchronizes with his biometrics. Despite the brutal psychological trauma brought about by piloting an Evangelion, Shinji defends Tokyo-3 against the angelic threat, oblivious to his father's dark machinations.

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