Berserk (anime)

Berserk takes place in a setting similiar to Europe in the Middle Ages. It centers around the life of Guts, an orphaned mercenary warrior, and his relationship to Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the Hawks.

Quotes From Characters

Narrator

• In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control; even over his own will.
• It was too big to be called a sword. Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough. Indeed, it was a heap of raw iron.

Berserk, Volume 1, page 22 and 23

• Dreams, ambition, love, hope; in this world, could the glories of a youthful heart be.. forbidden?
• In this world, is man ever able to possess anything more solid than a dream?

Guts

• Look around you carefully. Strain your eyes at the darkness around us... At the darkness around me. You said anywhere but here. This is where, here, at the border. Gathered by the winds. Those who have met their final destiny hanging between jealousy and regret. Those who failed, swept together here. You say it doesnt matter where. If you follow me, this is where you'll go. This is your eden.
• If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you...you won't be able to walk.
• Let's have a drink. ah shut up.. The alcohol will disinfect me from the inside!
• Do whatever you want now. But if you disturb me, I'll kill you.
• Humans are weak... but we want to live... even if we're wounded... or tortured... we feel the pain...
• Every sword belongs in its sheath. Go back to the sheath your master holds. Go back to Griffith.
• You're going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again ... soon.
• My place really was here. I was too foolish and stubborn to notice. But, what I truly hoped for then was here... Why do I always realize it.. When I've already lost it...
• You have the strongest armour, because you are the weakest!
• When you meet your God tell him to leave me alone.
• I want out of this damn moat!
• He appeared right in front of me, and he wasn't a demon... but what looked like a human. As if he'd been yanked from before into the present unchanged. I gazed at him and for a second... I forgot to kill him
• Throughout my life...the moments, and people who have defined me...they have all been illuminated...by sparks.
• I'd rather fight for my life than live it.
• Couldn't you settle for a smile, and a fond farewell?
• You're right, we are mortal and fragile. But even if we are tortured or wounded, we'll fight to survive. You should feel the pain we feel and understand. I am the messenger that will deliver you to that pain and understanding.
• I don't want what another man can give me. If he grants me anything, then it's his to give and not my own.
• In the end the winner is still the last man standing.
• FUCK YOU. I'm human, the real deal, right down to the fuckin' marrow of my bones. Don't lump me together with you faggot-ass monsters.
• I can't compare to you... Sure I can kill a hundred enemies but... and not only you, but Griffith too. You both hold on to something, gambling with your very lives. It's amazing to me, I can't compare. I just kill for the sake of killing. Everyday, hundreds, thousands... There's nothing... honorable... about it.
• Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream, for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they? ...- But, there's not flame for me here. I'm just... a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.

Griffith

• Among thousands of comrades and ten thousand enemies, only you... only you made me forget my dream. I see it!
• A friend would not just follow another's dream... a friend would find his own reason to live...
• Stake your lives on this fight! Our survival demands that we stake our lives on this fight! And to survive, is to be victorious!
• A dream... It's something you do for yourself, not for others.
• For me to call a man my friend, He must be equal to me in all respects.
• Death on the battlefield comes regardless of class, royal or common. The loser must die!

Judeau

• I realized that I could never be the best, so I decided to find the man that could and serve by his side.
• I'm a jack of all trades... a little better than most at everything, but I don't shine at anything.
• It's okay to cry...

Skull Knight

• God gave them this destiny. This encounter.
• What you want....may not be what she wants.

Old Woman

• Listen here boy, this is the only path that leads to the castle. Those who really want to make it to the castle must either step over the ones who have fallen or stay here to pave the road for those who have the will to make it.

Midland Commander

• Beyond all others. Perhaps we have fought by a hero such as the like of which comes around once in a hundred years. A commander beyond all others.