Quotes from Neon Genesis Evangelion

Those who hate themselves, cannot love or trust others.

Humans constantly feel pain in their hearts. Because the heart is so sensitive to pain, humans also feel that to live is to suffer.

Part of growing up means finding a way to interact with others while distancing pain.

Sometimes you need a little wishful thinking just to keep on living.

The reason he seems so withdrawn is because he's afraid of being hurt.

Whether I live or die makes no great difference. In truth, death may be the only absolute freedom there is.

The thread of human hope is spun with the flax of sorrow.

Even though a hedgehog may want to become close with another hedgehog. The closer they get the more they injure each other with their spines.

Never underestimate the ability of the human animal to adapt to its environment.

No one can justify life by linking happy moments into a rosary.

I thought this was supposed to be a world without pain and without uncertainty.

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.

Pain is something man must carry in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily, some believe that life is pain.

The fact that you have a place where you can return home, will lead you to happiness. That is a good fact.

Humans cannot create anything out of nothingness. Humans cannot accomplish anything without holding onto something. After all, humans are not gods.

It is simply the duty of the elite to protect the ignorant masses.

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

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

The one who deserves to survive is the one who has the will to make it happen. He wished for death. He ignored his will to survive and chose to die for a false hope. Your survival is not a mistake, Shinji.

You don't want to be by yourself, correct? We are many but you are alone. You hate it don't you?

This is man's ultimate fighting machine the synthetic life form know as Evangelion, Unit 1. Built here in secret, it is mankind's last hope.

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.

I'm the one who deserved to be hit. Not you! I'm a coward. I'm dishonest. I'm sneaky. And a wimp.

Living alone is fine with me. I'm alone anyway.

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.

My mind is being eaten away… Kaji-san, it's unravelling my mind! What do I do? It's defiling my mind.