A 2.0 thread for a lovely 2.0 website! I'll start it off.
"I’m not going there to die; I’m going to find out if I’m really alive. I have to do it, Faye."
-Spike, Cowboy Bebop, Final Episode
"Most problems can be solved by running away,
but a lot of people think that means admitting defeat.
In my eyes, they only look like they're willingly plunging themselves into misfortune.
Running away doesn't mean you lose,
and it won't always make you unhappy either.
Failing to escape merely helps you resign yourself to your fate."
And there you go. You heard her, Iri. Our Heroic Spirit thinks a battlefield to be something better than Hell. What a joke. It's Hell itself. There is no hope on a battlefield. There is nothing but unspeakable despair. Just a crime we call victory, paid for by the pain of the defeated. But humanity has never recognized this truth. And the reason is that, in every era, a dazzling hero has blinded the people with their legends, and kept them from seeing the evil of bloodshed. True human nature has not advanced a step beyond the Stone Age.
"Can villages that kill their children to maintain peace and order be considered a normal human society?
According to the false minoshiro, our history is one filled with bloodshed. However, I don't believe we have much to be proud of when comparing outselfs to the dark ages of the past. Looking back on what has happened in the villages, I now understand what twists it.
It is the adults' deep fear of all children.
This has perhaps occured in other times, too.
It seems obvious to me that seeing the next generation tear down all you've labored to build would be difficult to accept."
"Even the part of you others don't love and the part of you yourself don't love, I'll love it all."
Fukamachi - Sekai wa Kimi de Mawatterui(manga)
It may sound kinda cheesy, but I think that everyone should hear this from someone they love, so it makes them love themselves more or be more self-confident.
Uh...hey mister. I am mad scientist. It's so coooooooool! ...Sonovabitch. Hououin Kyouma, Stein's;Gate
~Hajime, Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken/I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying
Are you ready, guys? Put ya guns on! ~Date Masamune, Sengoku Basara
I'll come up with some more that are actually half-serious when I'm not being so lazy about it.
"Our lives were real! Not a single moment of them were fake! Everyone lived the best they could! We carved those memories into ourselves! Memories of living as hard as we could! No matter what kind they were, they're the life we led! Erasing them in the blink of an eye like that... Wasn't your life also real to you?!" -Otonashi Yuzuru (Angel Beats)