Evangelion Quotes

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 -Misato Katsuragi

Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be all right.

Even on a black and empty street. If we go together, we might one day find something like the moon thats floats in the darkness.

The only miracles of any value are the ones you work.

I'll lock my heart away deeper .. if I do that .. I won't have to feel pain outside or inside .. or the fear I won't have to feel anything at all !

God’s in His heaven— All’s right with the world!

One cannot turn back the clock but one can move it forward. (Gendo Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ep. 22, 23:55)

Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the Darkness.

Those who hate themselves, cannot love or trust others.

What's wrong with running away from reality if it sucks?!

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.

Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I?

This is roughly the worldview for Neon Genesis Evangelion. This is a worldview drenched in a vision of pessimism. A worldview where the story starts only after any traces of optimism have been removed. [...] They say, "To live is to change." I started this production with the wish that once the production complete, the world, and the heroes would change. That was my "true" desire. I tried to include everything of myself in Neon Genesis Evangelion-myself, a broken man who could do nothing for four years. A man who ran away for four years, one who was simply not dead. Then one thought. "You can't run away," came to me, and I restarted this production. It is a production where my only thought was to burn my feelings into film. I know my behavior was thoughtless, troublesome, and arrogant. But I tried. I don't know what the result will be. That is because within me, the story is not yet finished. I don't know what will happen to Shinji, Misato or Rei. I don't know where life will take them. Because I don't know where life is taking the staff of the production. I feel that I am being irresponsible. But... But it's only natural that we should synchronize ourselves with the world within the production. I've taken on a risk: "It's just an imitation." And for now I can only write this explanation. But perhaps our "original" lies somewhere within there.

Grave of the Fireflies, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Rurouni Kenshin, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Trigun, The Slayers, and my personal favorite, Ghost in the Shell.

It is my destiny to live forever, though my survival will bring final destruction to the human race. However, it is possible for me to be killed, and whether I live or die makes no great difference. In truth, death may be the only absolute freedom there is.

I'm often told that those who don't like themselves set high expectations for themselves, but ı think people who say that don't really understand how painful it is.

However great the fear, I will not look away If at the end of everything, there is love

Não pense em se entender comigo. Não sei porque o ser humano se esforça tanto em se entender um com o outro. Mas lembre-se. Duas pessoas Jamais se entenderão por completo. Pois o ser humano... é um bicho triste assim.

Algo debía de haber en el agua de Japón durante la década de los 90’s, para que obras del calibre argumental y filosófico de Neon Genesis Evangelion o Serial Experiments Lain viesen la luz en tan corto período histórico.

Childeren are much better at bringing out what they have imagined in their heads. İt's much more straightforward. They don't try to do a good job. İt's nice, isn't it ? Because it's pure, innocent. İt's a part of me that's been lost.

At school, your tests only have one right answer and you might get zero or half points if you put the wrong answer. But in what we call ''the real world'', things aren't so black and white, so you should think about things for yourself and express them in words or pictures. This is how you comminicate with people, with other people.

Trouble? Trouble is all there is.

Hay una parte de la Biblia que dice que los bailadores, los adivinos, los fornicarios, los mentirosos, los estafadores, los idólatras, los afeminados, se irán al lago de fuego pero, por alguna razón misteriosa y desconocida, los pastores, los evangelions que escriben libros, los canutos todos, se acuerdan siempre de los fornicarios (y los afeminados) más que de cualquier otro.

Evangelion is not so much an original as itself already a copy of popular anime elements, “an aggregate of information without a narrative” or a “grand non-narrative” (O38). This results in part from industrial changes. By the ’90s, any product can spawn all the others: a series of stickers or a company logo could bloom into a series of manga, TV or film anime, games and more. By now “the narrative is only a surplus item

[Hmmm…Do you know who I was named after?] I’d say Eva Perón. —Eva’s from Puerto Rico, Vincent, not Argentina. [I was named after a robot.] —That is interesting. —Oh yeah. You have his attention now. [I was born on the day of the parade when the EDC was created. My parents were the biggest geeks ever, huge science-fiction fans. Themis was the greatest thing they’d ever seen. They wanted to name me after her, but they somehow thought everyone would start naming their kid Themis, so they named me after another big robot.] A robot? [Yes. Eva’s a common name in Spanish, but apparently, it’s also the name of a giant robot, from a Japanese anime they really liked. It’s old. I never saw it.] —Eva is for Evangelion? That is so cool! —Of course, Vincent knows all about it. —Yeah! It’s awesome! But ours is bigger. —Eva, I think you have a fan now. —I…We have it on DVD, you know.

The word gospel, from the Greek word evangelion, means “good news.” The gospel refers to the good news that God sent his Son Jesus to live a sinless life, die a substitutionary death, and rise from the dead so that sinners who repent and trust in Jesus will be forgiven and have eternal life. We can expand this or shorten it, but this is a basic summation of the message we are called to share with others.

there was one place they could generate a field without fail—the ground beneath their feet. Otherwise, the hundred-meter-tall giants wouldn’t have been able to walk across any stretch of ground—no matter how well engineered or fortified—without sinking. That might sound too convenient to be plausible, but former Nerv executives had taken the phenomenon very seriously, and they’d left their records behind for the current staff. The limits of the human form— Humans cannot escape the ground. We are destined to crawl around in the dirt forever—to smear ourselves with it. According to them, this quirk of the A.T. Fields was proof of our fate. At the time, Asuka had said, “Duh, isn’t that obvious?

I've watched anime before too... Evangelion was it? - Igarashi

I want you to pretend you’re a boy who’s killed his mother and write a story about it. It doesn’t have to be long, but something that’s better than what that killer Sakakibara wrote. Sprinkle in some Dostoyevsky or Nietzsche or whatever. But do a good job of incorporating those, so nobody can trace the source. Then sort of wrap it up like ‘Evangelion.’ Or maybe--it might be better to make it all avant garde-ish, know what I mean? Philosophy of life, moaning and groaning about the absurdity of it all, like that. I’m counting on you. If a story doesn’t work out, then a poem’s fine. If you make it kind of incomprehensible and look cool then a poem might just do the trick. The kind of poem that they could use as evidence in a psych evaluation, that sort of thing. Something that hides my real intentions and confuses the reader.

O sonho volta para dentro da realidade. A realidade, para dentro do sonho. E... a verdade... para dentro do coração. É o coração que dá forma à pessoa. Quando cada um, voluntariamente, criar a imagem de si mesmo... todos recuperarão sua forma humana.

Para quem quer viver... todo lugar se torna o céu. Sempre haverá uma chance de sermos felizes. Contanto que estejamos vivos

A ciência é o poder do ser humano.

Spirit is a very peculiar concept which has in many cases lost its original character, but the history of the word spirit, or the German word Geist, tells us what it originally meant. The Greek word pneuma and the Latin word spiritus mean wind, and the Latin word animus is the same as the Greek word anemos, and they also mean wind. Pneuma is still the term in the Greek Orthodox church for the Holy Ghost, which is the sacred wind; it is a movement, a force. And Geist comes from a root which means to well up; it is a sort of enthusiasm, an emotional condition. The English word aghast is an emotional word which comes from it, and the word ghost is related to it. Geist was understood to be like a geyser, a welling up, an inspiration. In the miracle of Pentecost, all those symbolic phenomena are together; the fiery tongues mean the fire of enthusiasm: the apostles were like drunken people, and a powerful wind filled the house. That was spirit, but to us spirit has become something exceedingly lame and ineffectual, a mere two-dimensional picture — sort of beliefs or ideas that have no body and no force; one must believe them to give them any force. In the philosophy of Klages, one learns that the spirit is now the devil that destroys life, but he at least attributes a destructive power to it. And Scheler, who tried to restore a certain amount of importance to the spirit, made again a very lame thing of it; it is neither very destructive nor very effective. That powerful wind, which was destructive as well as generative or emotional, has gone. It is a poor thing with us now, no longer what it used to be. This process has come about within two thousand years. It was God in the beginning, and before that time it was latent in what man calls "God," that incomprehensible power in the depth of his own soul. And man supposes that this is in the depth of the universe in general because the microcosm is in no way different from the macrocosm; so what is in the depth of the soul was in the universe before, in that eternal source of life. Then it became visible or audible; it became the evangelion, the glad tidings, and people received it. But later it grew into an organization, so the effect was lost in created things. You see, the creative impulse comes to an end with the creation, just because it has become a creation; for a while there is no longer an impulse — until one has liberated oneself again from that which one has created. If one sticks to the creation, one will create nothing more. And so the time comes when the world is absolutely empty of spirit, when nobody knows what spirit is, when there are only the effects of the spirit — though those effects make visible efforts to remember the times when they were young, as old people like to speak about their youth just because they have it no longer. This descent which has happened to us within the last two thousand years, then, is the phenomenon to which Nietzsche here refers — of course in a more or less negative way. Jung, C. G.. Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939. Two Volumes: 1-2, unabridged (Jung Seminars) (p. 494-495). Princeton University Press.