Fate/zero Quotes

"I suppose having your name recorded in the history books is a form of immortality. But if that just means your name gets passed down for two thousand years and nothing else, I'd have preferred to have even a hundredth of that added to my actual life."

— Rider · Fate/zero

"[To Waver] The path of devotion is a great labor. Do not ever mar it."

— Gilgamesh · Fate/zero

"Indeed. I wanted to see Oceanus with my own eyes. Unfortunately, my dream never came true. Oceanus is still my final destination. A dream that never ends. Go ahead and laugh. Two thousand years later, and I still have the same dream. Every bit the fool as well. And so boy... a pact with a fellow idiot seems ideal."

— Rider · Fate/zero

"Impossible, right? Compared to the enemy we're facing, you and I are the same, no more than dots! What's the point in comparing our heights? That is what makes this exciting! The smallest, the weakest - it doesn't matter! I should still wish to go and take over the world, with nothing more than my tiny dot of a body! Within my chest, beats the heart of the King of Conquerors!"

— Rider · Fate/zero

"When you someday find a way of life that you can truly be proud of, you'll be forced into your own battle whether you like it or not."

— Rider · Fate/zero

"The inferiority you feel is actually the quality of a king. You may grumble a lot, but you know how small you are. And yet you still struggle to reach heights greater than you can imagine."

— Rider · Fate/zero

"Using a simple method to accomplish something impressive, far outshines using a complex method to achieve the same thing."

— Rider · Fate/zero

"The King lives to the fullest! He needs to live more fully than anyone else. He is a figure of admiration to his people!"

— Rider · Fate/zero

"Even if I am to carry all the evils of this world, it won't matter. If that can save the world, then I'd gladly accept it."

— Emiya Kiritsugu · Fate/zero

"Then you swear that, once I defeat an enemy, you will buy me pants?"

— Rider · Fate/zero

"From the moment a magus is born, he is someone that has "power". And some day, he will achieve a "greater power". This responsibility was already flowing in his "blood" before he realized this destiny. That is what it means to be born into this world as the child of a magus."

— Tohsaka Tokiomi · Fate/zero

"Only a man brave enough to ride into battle at my side could ever be my Master. A coward lacking the courage to even show himself is nowhere close to being worthy!"

— Rider · Fate/zero

"(to Kiritsugu) I shall not let you die easily. I shall use healing magic to regenerate your heart and lungs, while I rend every inch of your flesh. In pain and despair, you will die as you suffer. And while you die, you will curse them... You will curse the cowardice of those who hired you! You will curse the Einzbern's for disgracing the Holy Grail War!"

— Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi · Fate/zero

"Fail to strike the enemy once you know their location, and it'll be too late to even regret having missed the chance."

— Rider · Fate/zero

"Strive to consistently maintain the proper flow. That is the Tohsaka family motto. It means always remaining reserved and elegant."

— Tohsaka Tokiomi · Fate/zero

"Rarely does one have the chance to exchange blows with heroes from another age. And with the chance to fight as many as six, I can't allow one of them to fall right now. Look at Saber and Lancer. Both are valiant warriors I would love to duel with. It'd be a pity to let either die."

— Rider · Fate/zero

"Before I am a Servant, I am a knight. I can only serve but one lord."

— Lancer · Fate/zero

"A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would become a martyr for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king... The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh louder and rage harder. He must exemplify the extreme of all things good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration to be as the king is Proud king of chivalry... The righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved but left to themselves. You saved them but you never led them. You never showed them what a king should be. You abandoned your men when they lost their way. Then alone and untroubled Thus you are no true king. You are only a little girl enraptured by a false idol of the king who serves others"

— Rider · Fate/zero

"I am the alienated, the ridiculed, the despised. No need to praise my name. No need to envy my body. I am the shadow under the radiance of heroic spirits. Birthed of the darkness of glorious legend. And so, I hate, I resent. Nourished by the sighs of the people precipitated within the darkness, people that curse the light. This is my disgrace. Because of her unsullied glory, I must forever be belittled. You are, the sacrifice. Good, give me more, your blood and flesh, your life. Let them ignite my hatred!!"

— Berserker · Fate/zero

"The world might seem boring. But, if you just look, you'll find all kinds of crazy stuff. The world is the best form of entertainment. Something like this couldn't just have happened by chance. There must be a writer writing the stories of more than five-billion people. And the only thing we could possibly call this person is God."

— Ryuunosuke Uryuu · Fate/zero

"When you look back after a long life, you'll realize there's nothing that's really worth risking your life for."

— Mackenzie Glen · Fate/zero

"If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you're nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon."

— Kaminski Natalia · Fate/zero

"I'm scared. Or should I borrow your words and say this is exciting?"

— Waver Velvet · Fate/zero

"Ephemeral and brilliant one, fall to my embrace. That is my decision."

— Gilgamesh · Fate/zero