History Quotes / Berserk

!!''The Golden Age'' Film Trilogy Lyrics
[[folder:''My Brother'']]
->[[BashBrothers My brother, come join me\\
In battle we are stronger]]\\
When Tudor will falter\\
Sacrificed to their altar.(x2)\\

One hundred years of wait is over\\
Now we claim what is rightful to us.\\

My brother, come join me\\
In battle we are stronger\\
When Tudor will falter\\
Sacrificed to their altar.(x3)\\

Oh my brother, with your courage we can conquer,\\
In your sword I put my trust that you will honor\\
I will be the higher ground should you concede it\\
[[TakingTheBullet And my body be your shield if you should need it.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:''Blood and Guts'']]

->Blood and Guts and Guts and Blood and (x8)\\

Robbed of a mothers love at birth\\
(left to drown in blood)\\
he was to die beneath her corpse.\\
Meant to rot in a cesspit of despair,\\
born to die as a waste of air.\\

Raised as a child one shorn of fate\\
in a fit of rage\\
he, knows a violent destiny\\
will await, only life by sword shall reign\\
and he never to death be slain.\\

Raised as a child one shorn of fate\\
in a fit of rage\\
he, knows a violent destiny\\
will await, only life by sword shall reign\\
and he never to death be slain.
[[/folder]]

!!FilkSong Lyrics
[[folder:''Iron Hand'' by Battle Beast]]

-> On the eve of destruction\\
Ferocious Hell-Demons\\
Are bound to be pulverized by the Hand\\

Iron Hand!\\

In the dawn of a new life\\
Some die being born dead\\
And the River of Blood flows from the Hand\\

Iron Hand!\\
Iron Hand!\\

The one who can face death\\
Must know what true life's like\\
It's living by the sword of truth\\
(Look out!)\\
There's a man who can change fate\\
He's called the Black Swordsman\\
He'll fight 'til the kingdom falls by the Hand\\

Iron Hand!\\
Iron Hand!\\
Iron Hand!\\
Iron Hand!!!

[[folder: ''Blood Sacrifice'' by Witchaven]]
-> The eclipse is nigh\\
And the God's hand awakens here.\\
Eve of the feast\\
Of all that you love so dear,\\
The Beherit calls\\
And cry's its bloodshed tears.\\
All around,\\
Apostles begin to appear.\\

[[folder: Forces]]

[[folder: Forces (English)]]

[[folder: My Brother]]

[[folder: Blood and Guts]]

[[folder:Iron Hand by Battle Beast]]

!!The Golden Age Film Trilogy Lyrics

!1997 TV Anime Lyrics

!The Golden Age Film Trilogy Lyrics

!FilkSong Lyrics

The word "chapter" should not be used in place of "episode", because "chapter" specifically means an intermediate storytelling unit that makes up an Arc, which is the largest storytelling unit. When citing the manga, an example should state the volume number, followed by the episode number, followed by the title of the episode.

'''Please note:''' Quote citations should follow the '''''official naming convention''''' for Berserk storytelling units. This means that each manga release before serialization in ''Young Animal Magazine'' is called a "Revenge" and given a number. Beginning from "Sword Wind", the first chapter that was published in ''Young Animal'', the numbering starts again at 1 and each release is called an "episode". If you are referring to a TV episode of the 1997 anime rather than a printed episode in the manga, please specify "Anime Episode". Beginning with the new anime broadcast, it will be necessary to specify whether it is an episode in the 1997 anime or the 2016 anime. The word "chapter" should not be used in place of "episode", because "chapter" specifically means an intermediate storytelling unit that makes up an Arc, which is the largest storytelling unit. When citing the manga, an example should state the volume number, followed by the episode number, followed by the title of the episode.

->''"Beast...? Monster...? Heh! Screw that! I'm...''''me''''. There's nothing else. '''I am what I am'''. And I '''will''' make my way to him."''

!Lyrics

-->-- '''OpeningNarration''' of Chapter 1, [[TitleDrop "Sword Wind"]] in Volume 5

-->-- '''Narration''' introducing Guts' [[{{BFS}} Dragonslayer]] in Volume 1, "The Black Swordsman"

-->-- '''Nosferatu Zodd''' to Guts in Volume 5, episode 5: "Nosferatu Zodd (4)"

-->-- episode 33, "One Snowy Night"

-->-- '''Guts''' to Casca in Volume 10, episode 48, "Sparks from a Sword Tip"

-->-- '''Guts''' in Volume 12, episode 71, "The Warriors of Twilight"

-->-- '''Guts''' in Volume 13, episode 86, "Birth"

-->-- Declaring war against the Apostles and the Godhand in Volume 13, episode 91, "Vow of Retaliation"

->''"If you see your God, then tell him to LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!"''
-->-- As he kills Father Mozgus

-> ''"I won't leave you somewhere. I've had enough of leaving people behind. This time, I won't lose you."''
-->-- Vowing to stay with Casca in Volume 22

-->-- Fighting to protect Casca on his own.

-->-- Accepting Serpico, Farnese, and Isidro as companions.

-->-- Volume 3, "The Guardians of Desire (6)"

-->-- Volume 5: "The Golden Age (8)"

-->-- Volume 6, "Master of the Sword (2)"

-->-- Volume 6, "Precious Thing"

-->-- To the Queen and her conspirators, episode 32, "Tombstone of Flame (2)".

-->-- '''Griffith''' in Volume 12, episode 78, "Parting"

-->-- Voiceover in a 30 second TV ad for the anime.

-->-- Anime episode 21

-->-- Volume 14, "Demon Infant"

->''"Indeed he is powerful but what will he do when his foes are dead?"''
-->-- After seeing Guts fight in the Berserker Armour.

-->-- During his duel with Guts, episode 257

-->--episode 32, "Tombstone of Flame"

-->--Conversation between Godo and Rickert in Volume 14, episode 93, "Armament"

-->-- Guts and Rosine battle in midair

-->-- Guts and Mozgus fight

[[/folder]]

'''Casca''': ''You really are a complete fool. I thought I told you back then! That someone who wants to accomplish something, if it's grand, endures that much more than other people do. Griffith had to make himself strong. But Griffith isn't a god! A person's heart can't be sustained by ideals and dreams alone. You! You made Griffith weak! He's no...Griffith's...NO GOOD WITHOUT YOU!!!''\\

-->-- Volume 17, episode 125, "Morning of Truth"

[[folder: Farnese]]
->''"Somehow, as he sat beneath the brightening sky, panting like a beast, splattered with the blood of his prey, the image touched me. It was both solemn and beautiful, almost like a painting adorning a basilica. I merely sought to escape, shivering in fear. Not once could I call upon my Lord. I avow myself a woman of God, but not even the name I've invoked a countless thousand times...I...In the shade of the morning sky, I was tiny, wretched, and powerless."''

->'''Casca''': ''Practically ''nothing'' about you's changed in the past three years. You're satisfied as long as you get to just cross swords with the enemy. You don't think about your comrades one bit! [[TheBerserker You're just a mad dog]]!!''\\
'''Guts''': ''You're wrong! I ''do'' think about my comrades. [[CharacterDevelopment I'm not...who I used to be]]."''
-->--Guts and Casca argue, "Sword Wind" (paraphrased somewhat, as in "The Egg of the King")

-->-- '''Nina''', episode 176

-->-- '''Lady Vandimion'''

-->-- '''Martino''', episode 329, "Spring Flowers of Distant Days" part 1

[[folder: My Brother]]
->[[BashBrothers My brother, come join me\\
In battle we are stronger]]\\
When Tudor will falter\\
Sacrificed to their altar.(x2)\\

One hundred years of wait is over\\
Now we claim what is rightful to us.\\

My brother, come join me\\
In battle we are stronger\\
When Tudor will falter\\
Sacrificed to their altar.(x3)\\

Oh my brother, with your courage we can conquer,\\
In your sword I put my trust that you will honor\\
I will be the higher ground should you concede it\\
[[TakingTheBullet And my body be your shield if you should need it.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Blood and Guts]]

->Blood and Guts and Guts and Blood and (x8)\\

Robbed of a mothers love at birth\\
(left to drown in blood)\\
he was to die beneath her corpse.\\
Meant to rot in a cesspit of despair,\\
born to die as a waste of air.\\

Raised as a child one shorn of fate\\
in a fit of rage\\
he, knows a violent destiny\\
will await, only life by sword shall reign\\
and he never to death be slain.\\

Raised as a child one shorn of fate\\
in a fit of rage\\
he, knows a violent destiny\\
will await, only life by sword shall reign\\
and he never to death be slain.

->My brother, come join me\\
In battle we are stronger\\

And my body be your shield if you should need it.

[[folder: Blood and Guts]]

->Blood and Guts and Guts and Blood and (x8)\\

Robbed of a mothers love at birth\\
(left to drown in blood)\\
he was to die beneath her corpse.\\
Meant to rot in a cesspit of despair,\\
born to die as a waste of air.\\

Raised as a child one shorn of fate\\
in a fit of rage\\
he, knows a violent destiny\\
will await, only life by sword shall reign\\
and he never to death be slain.\\

Raised as a child one shorn of fate\\
in a fit of rage\\
he, knows a violent destiny\\
will await, only life by sword shall reign\\
and he never to death be slain.

->''"Martyrdom for a merciless God. What a waste. On the battlefield, the life of a common soldier isn't even worth a single piece of silver. In today's world, most people's lives are subject to the whims of a handful of nobility and royalty. Of course, even a king himself can't live exactly as he pleases. We are all at the mercy of a great tide--fate, or whatever you wish to call it--and we all disappear in the end, our lives spent, never even knowing who we were. In life, unrelated to one's social standing or class as determined by man, there are some people who, by nature, are keys that set the world in motion. They are the true elite, as dictated by the golden rule of the universe. That's what I want to know!! What is my place in the world? Who am I? What am I capable of? What am I destined for?"''
-->-- '''Griffith''' in Volume 3, "The Guardians of Desire (6)"

->''"Guts, come along with me. This is no more than a single step. The Band of the Hawk, all the victories on the battlefield, are just the outset. Just the beginning. This is where it starts to get interesting. You can bet your life on that. '''I will get my own kingdom'''. You will fight for my cause, because you belong to me. I will decide the place where you die."''
-->-- '''Griffith''' in Volume 5: "The Golden Age (8)"

->'''Casca''': ''Practically ''nothing'' about you's changed in the past three years. You're satisfied as long as you get to just cross swords with the enemy. You don't think about your comrades one bit! [[TheBerserker You're just a mad dog]]!!''\\
'''Guts''': ''You're wrong! I ''do'' think about my comrades. [[CharacterDevelopment I'm not...who I used to be]]."''
-->--Guts and Casca argue, "Sword Wind" (paraphrased somewhat, as in "The Egg of the King")

->''"Do I need a reason each time I put myself in harms way for your sake?"''
-->--'''Griffith''' to Guts in Volume 6, "Master of the Sword (2)"

-> ''"With no relation to social status, class, background, whether it suits them or not, people yearn for a dream. Sustained by a dream, hurt by a dream, revived by a dream, killed by a dream. And even after being abandoned by a dream, it continues to smolder from the bottom of one's heart, probably until the verge of death. A man should envision such a lifetime once. A life spent as a martyr...to the God named "Dream". Ultimately, to be born, and then to simply live for no better reason...I can't abide such a life. They are...excellent troops. Together we have faced death so many times. They are my valuable comrades, devoting themselves to the dream I envision. But to me, a friend is...something else. Someone who would never depend on another's dream. Someone who wouldn't be compelled by anyone, but would determine and pursue his own reason to live...And should anyone trample that dream, he would oppose him body and soul, even if that threat were me myself. What I think a friend is...is one who is my '''"Equal"'''.''
-->-- '''Griffith'''

->''"Griffith persists in trying to realize a kind of dream that most people abandoned long ago as a childish thing. But the dream he's chasing is so genuine and extraordinary that the burden must be immeasurable. "A strong person"...it's simple to sum it up with those words. But I think that someone who wants to accomplish something grand endures that much more than other people. It's not that he "is" strong...Griffith has to "make" himself strong. I want to be by his side. If he's going to sacrifice everything for his dream, if his dream is to fight and cut away his own path, then I want to be his sword."''
-->-- '''Casca''' in Volume 7, episode 17: "Casca (6)"

-> ''"That day you left, that's when I knew. The thing I could not stop gazing at and thinking about wasn't Griffith, kneeling in the snow defeated for the first time and devastated by it. It was you, watching you walk away from us and never look back. It gripped me, I couldn't accept what I was feeling, this woman unable to blink, unable to turn away as you disappeared. The life I had led the moment I met Griffith all at once felt betrayed. My life had been an honest one: I had only my pride, and I owe that to Griffith, but... I'm changing. There may be a place for me in this man's soul. [[TheFourLoves Not because of what I may receive, but for something of worth I may have for him.]]"''
-->-- '''Casca's''' LoveEpiphany, anime episode 21

->''"Among thousands of comrades and ten thousand enemies, you're the only one who made me forget my dream. [[WhamLine I...sacrifice.]]"''
-->-- '''Griffith''' in Volume 12, episode 78, "Parting"

-> ''"...Don't watch..."''
-->-- '''Casca''' in episode 87, "Afterglow of the Right Eye"

-->-- '''Guts''', declaring war against the Apostles and the Godhand in Volume 13, episode 91, "Vow of Retaliation"

->'''Godo''': ''A king sent out a proclamation long ago to bring him a sword that could kill a dragon, and so the lord put me on the job. At that time I'd gotten sick of doing work for nobles. "Make 'em refined, make 'em elegant..." Swords are just large butcher knives, after all. Tools meant for ''killing'' people. And so I forged it, as it was ''described''. A sword that could butcher...a ''dragon''.''\\
'''Rickert''': ''S-so then?''\\
'''Godo''': ''I almost got hung out to dry. So I ran away from the castle town, and I've lived here quietly since. I sure was ''young'' back then. Mighty things, things that could kill, that's all there was for me. But if anyone could handle ''this'', it'd still just be a hinderance. I don't like losin' track of the essence of a tool, but that's exactly what I did here. Now it's a good reminder.''\\
'''Rickert''': ''Can it...kill one? Could this really kill...a dragon?''\\
'''Godo''': ''If there ''were'' any dragons. But you know, this ain't even what you'd call a sword. It's a meaningless slab of iron you can't even lift, for killin' dragons and monsters that ain't even real. Your friend looks like he's about to fight a dragon, though. Seems to want to fight even after losing his hand and eye. He ain't up to the job, is he? Dragons are dragons because humans can't ''beat'' 'em."''
-->--Conversation between Godo and Rickert in Volume 14, episode 93, "Armament"

-> ''"Dragons are dragons because humans can't beat 'em. So, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters what's a man who beats dragons]]?"''
-->--'''Godo''' in episode 94, "He Who Hunts Dragons"

->'''Rosine''': ''"[[WhatTheHellAreYou What are...WHO are you?!]] [[VillainousBreakdown Why're you so--?!]]"''\\
'''Guts:''' ''"You wouldn't remember. Every last human you scum snacked on playing your games. '''[[ButForMeItWasTuesday You wouldn't remember.]]'''"''

->'''Mozgus''': ''"Can you not hear them?! Every person congregated in this place now desires, as one heart, salvation. They are eagerly awaiting the time of God's victory. Do you mean you care not that tens of thousands of believers shall lose their lives in exchange for one evil witch?"''\\
'''Guts:''' ''"Don't make me laugh. All they do is pray. Every last one of them, when the fire's under their own ass, all any of them do is bow down. Tens of thousands of people shouldn't cling to just one woman!"''

-->-- '''Guts''', as he kills Father Mozgus

->''"I'm sorry, Luca, to worry you to the very end. I'm going with Joachim. I...love you, all of you. But...if I stayed with you, I'm sure someday [[DontYouDarePityMe I would hate you again]], [[HeelRealization and hate myself]]. A person hurts someone just because they're strong, and they hate someone just because they're weak. I know that well enough. That's why I think I'll go with this man who is burdened with the same weakness and sins as I. Because if I'm with him, I have a good feeling...[[TookALevelInKindness we can both become just a little kinder and stronger]]. [[CharacterDevelopment I want to be someone who can trust others without clinging to them]]. [[YourDaysAreNumbered I want to live]], keep on living, and see you again without clinging or fearing, once I can smile with you with sincerity."''
-->-- '''Nina''', episode 176

-->-- '''Guts''' vowing to stay with Casca in Volume 22

-> '''Griffith''': ''I came here to know for certain whether anything will shake my heart. While I stand before you in this new body of flesh...it seems...I am...[[LackOfEmpathy free]]''.\\
'''Guts''': ''You mean after [[MoralEventHorizon what you did]], after [[EtTuBrute all those you betrayed]], you don't feel anything!?''\\
'''Griffith''': ''I'll not betray my dream. That is all. [...] I told you once, I will get my own kingdom. Nothing has changed.''\\
'''Guts''': ''You say nothing's changed...! After everything you did, you say nothing's changed!?''\\
'''Griffith''': ''You should have known. This is the man I am. You, of all people.''

-->-- '''Guts'''

-->-- '''Guts'''

-->-- '''Serpico''', after seeing Guts fight in the Berserker Armour.

->''"The use of words is not all there is to communicating feelings, Farnese. You've always expressed your unutterable, repressed feelings through the most unexpected behavior. Like a baby without speech, crying and shouting for all it's worth. Your father feared you for that. He hasn't the strength to accept things he doesn't comprehend. You were raised all alone, like some beast of the field, never experiencing a parent's warmth or the world of man. And so your heart is naked, not clad in any shell. When it comes to your feelings you are artistic, so much so that you can't abide this world. But you know, if you were able to find a place for yourself somewhere, then you, more familiar with pain than most, could probably come to be kinder than anyone else."''
-->-- '''Lady Vandimion'''

-->-- '''Serpico''', episode 257

->''"Whoops, Sorry! I forgot it's not the mercenary way to go around snooping into each other's shady pasts. But you know...you kill, and you die. Maybe it's because of that rotten-ass battlefield that someday, somewhere, you might meet some war buddies. And for him...for them, it'd be kind of worth it to put your life on the line."''
-->-- '''Martino''', episode 329, "Spring Flowers of Distant Days" part 1

-> ''"It is over... the logic of this world... is now ending."''
-->-- '''Sonia''' summing it up perfectly.

-> ''"... What the hell just happened!?"''
-->-- '''Guts''' describing your feelings while reading this series, volume 26

-> ''"No matter how much blood is spilled, No matter how many tears are shed, No matter how many hearts are broken, No matter how much time slips away, No matter how much feelings are carried, No matter how... sad it is, I want to be part of the dream of that man."''
-->--Casca, in a 30 second TV ad for the anime.

-->-- An outtake from the dub, after Guts and Casca make love

-->-- '''Nosferatu Zodd''' to Guts in Volume 5, Chapter 5: "Nosferatu Zodd (4)"

-->-- '''Casca''' in Volume 7, Chapter 17: "Casca (6)"

-->-- '''Casca's''' LoveEpiphany, episode 21

-->-- '''Guts''' to Casca in Volume 10, Chapter 48, "Sparks from a Sword Tip"

-->-- '''Guts''' in Volume 12, Chapter 71, "The Warriors of Twilight"

-->-- '''Griffith''' in Volume 12, Chapter 78, "Parting"

-->-- '''Guts''' in Volume 13, Chapter 86, "Birth"

-->-- '''Casca''' in Chapter 87, "Afterglow of the Right Eye"

-->-- '''Guts''', declaring war against the Apostles and the Godhand in Volume 13, Chapter 91, "Vow of Retaliation"

-->--Conversation between Godo and Rickert in Volume 14, Chapter 93, "Armament"

-->--'''Godo''' in Chapter 94, "He Who Hunts Dragons"

->''"If you see your God, then tell him to LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!"''

-->-- '''Serpico''', chapter 257

-->-- '''Martino''', chapter 329, "Spring Flowers of Distant Days" part 1