Fate/stay night Quotes

"The storyteller may fall silent, the music may cease, but the story will not end. Be it tragedy or comedy, as long as there is applause, the story will not end. It is just like the multitude of human lives. Warm blessings to we who were not rewarded, and we who are still on our way. Our travels continue on."

— Fate/stay night · Fate/stay night

"If a couple curses stopped me, what kind of hero would I be?!"

— Gilgamesh · Fate/stay night

"Dreams are more beautiful if they stay as dreams."

— Fate/stay night · Fate/stay night

"I don't mind losing to someone, but I won't be beaten by myself."

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"I killed many people to act on my ideal. I killed so many that I stopped caring about innocent people and I saved a thousand times as many as I killed."

— Archer · Fate/stay night

"A warrior would rather die, than survive defeat."

— Assassin · Fate/stay night

"Even if I could redo the past, I must not take back what has already happened, because if I do that, everything would be a lie: those tears, that pain, those memories, that cold reality that hurts my heart, all of it. There were people who died in pain. There were people who risked their lives to save others. There were people who mourned for the deaths. But then, if everything were taken back and it did not happen, where would all of those go? The dead people would not come back. Reality cannot be overturned. To continue on remembering the pain and the weight… isn't that how lost things remain? People will eventually die and death itself is sad, but pain shouldn't be the only thing that remains. A death is painful, but it also leaves behind bright memories. As I am bound by these people's deaths… As I am protected by my memories of Kiritsugu... I believe memories become constraints and change the people living now... Even if... They are memories that will eventually be forgotten."

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"Is it really worth saving this sad and ugly world, when there is nothing left after it is saved? With all this death, cruelty and sadness, do you still want to become a hero?"

— Archer · Fate/stay night

"A certain scripture mentions that humans are superior to angels. Why? Because there are people who know of evil, but do not become evil. It's different from angels, who know only of good since birth. Humans have evil, but can live as good, so they are superior to angels, who know only good."

— Kotomine Kirei · Fate/stay night

"I can't stray from my path for those I've left behind."

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"It is a simple story. There is nothing that brings me happiness. It does not matter, let it be believing in people or having people believe in me. What other people called happiness did not bring me any joy."

— Kotomine Kirei · Fate/stay night

"It is fine to assume that the Master's role is to support the battle from the back. But there are always exceptions. There are Masters who can only fight head on."

— Souichirou Kuzuki · Fate/stay night

"You can certainly fulfill your wish to "save someone". But a wish for you to save yourself, does not exist. You will embrace a borrowed ideal that is not yours, and you will probably pursue it until you die."

— Archer · Fate/stay night

"I envy you people. What I sought, but could not obtain. What I obtained, but could not obtain. Many things slipped out between my fingers, no matter what commandment I used."

— Kotomine Kirei · Fate/stay night

"Blue sky is in the distance. It feels so close. Yet, I cannot grab it even if I reach out with my hands. I looked up at the stars before. The stars that I cannot reach and the wishes that will not be granted. There is nothing we have been able to leave behind for each other. Therefore, traces and memories will disappear someday. But still... Even if it will not reach her, there should be something that will remain in our hearts. There is nothing that remains in our hands, but we lived the same time and looked up at the same things. If I can remember that. I can believe that we can be together even if we are far apart."

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"That is why I will keep running for now. If I aim for the distance, there should come a day when I would be able to reach out to what I have been aiming for."

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"It should be natural for you to drink until dawn with someone you get along with, even if he may be your enemy."

— Lancer · Fate/stay night

"[To Gilgamesh] That's right. I don't create swords. I create a world that contains infinite swords. This is the only magic allowed for me. There's no need to be surprised. These are all imitations. As you say, these are all trifling swords. But there is no rule that says an imitation cannot defeat the original. If you say you are the original, I will surpass every one of your weapons and destroy your existence. Here I come, King of Heroes! Do you have enough swords in stock?"

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"Emiya Shirou! Listen, you are not "one who fights". You are nothing more than "one who creates". Don't think of irrelevant things. There is only one thing you can do, master that one thing. Do not forget. The thing you image is always "your strongest self." You don't need any other enemies. The opponent you have to fight is none other than "your own image"."

— Archer · Fate/stay night

"I don't want to regret anything. I want to make all the tragedies that happened into meaningful things by believing that my path is right."

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"I can't lose against myself. There's no element that would make me lose if our powers are equal. To admit defeat against such an enemy is to declare that I'm wrong."

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"Those who aim further for other's sake. Those who think of others before themselves. ...And those who hate themselves more than anyone. These are the qualities of a Magus. This is a contradiction you can only have if you are born broken."

— Tohsaka Rin · Fate/stay night

"What's past is past. I cannot redo it, nor go back to it. I have escaped from that scene and still continue to live. All I can do is look forward."

— Emiya Shirou · Fate/stay night

"If there is a pure wish in this world, it must be the desire to be born."

— Kotomine Kirei · Fate/stay night