Reading other people's thoughts and historical quotes has always been of interest to me. Historical figures, and even recent figures, have said millions of powerful things on just about every possible topic. Among those topics, I love reading about people's opinions on God, war, and the meaning of life. There are just so many interesting things to read, and I thought I would post some of them here. Berserk is a very powerful series and includes lots of philosophical ideas. As you have seen, I include quotes from the series in red on the top of each page. Here I will include quotes that I feel is suitable for Berserk, but spoken from real people. I will be adding more quotes when I find the time. If you would like to submit a quote (preferably from a real person), simply e-mail me. And just a side note, I don't endorse the famous people, only their quotes (so don't think I endorse Adolf Hitler because I put his quote here - it just means something he said has meaning in the world of Berserk).

General Quotes: "The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils" - Junius "All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty" - H.C. Trumbull "To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake" - Arthur Schopenhauer "Imagination rules the world" - Napoleon "My one regret in life is that I am not someone else" - Woody Allen "If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia" - Thomas Szasz "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away"- Douglas MacArthur "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live" - Adolf Hitler "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate" - Thomas Jones "The cruelest lies are often told in silence" - Robert Louis Stevenson "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime" - Ernest Hemingway "Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last" - Marcus Aurelius "A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him" - Winston Churchill Griffith Related Quotes: "Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul" - Robert Southey "Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him" - Ernest Jones "There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy" - Frankfort Moore "One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good" - Jonathon Swift "It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on" - Sun Tzu "No leader should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no leader should fight a battle simply out of pique. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened leader is heedful, and the good leader full of caution" - Sun Tzu "Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices" - Adolf Hitler "Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter" - Winston Churchill "A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions" - Confucius "Have no friends not equal to yourself" - Confucius

Guts Related Quotes: "What does not destroy me makes me stronger" - Nietzsche "We gather strength from sadness and from pain. Each time we die we learn to live again" - Unknown "Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price." - Elie Wiesel "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster, for as you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back into you" - Nietzsche "He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive" - Master Khan "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" - Confucius "Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve" - Sun Tzu "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" - Mahatma Gandhi "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth" - Mahatma Gandhi "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change" - Malcom X "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere" - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib "Strength lies not in defense but in attack." - Adolf Hitler "Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy" - Winston Churchill "I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter" - Winston Churchill