"It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?"
— Lorien, Babylon 5
Luffy: Robin! I still haven't heard it from your mouth! SAY YOU WANT TO LIVE!
Robin: (thinking) Live... I thought wishing for it was forbidden... Nobody would allow me that... If.. If I'm allowed to declare my wish... Then I...
(in tears) I WANT TO LIVE! TAKE ME OUT TO THE SEA WITH YOU!!!
Robin: (thinking) Live... I thought wishing for it was forbidden... Nobody would allow me that... If.. If I'm allowed to declare my wish... Then I...
(in tears) I WANT TO LIVE! TAKE ME OUT TO THE SEA WITH YOU!!!
I had always been alone, so I wasn't too afraid of dying from illness. But now it's different. There are days that I want to protect. There are people that I hold dear, that I want to make happy. For everyone's sake, I want to stay alive.
—Hayate Yagami, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Episode 9 opening narration
Whatever happens, I want you to know why I'm really fighting. It's not that I'm angry, or that they tried to kill me, or even that I want to show off in my Eva like I always used to. This time I have something worth fighting for. Something I want to protect. And someone.
— Asuka, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide
All of her life, Commander Ikari had given her a purpose to live for.
And now, as she plunged towards the Lava to save her friend ... for the first time in her life since she had discovered mortality, Rei Ayanami had found to her surprise that she had something worth dying for.
And now, as she plunged towards the Lava to save her friend ... for the first time in her life since she had discovered mortality, Rei Ayanami had found to her surprise that she had something worth dying for.
If I die, I can be replaced... but I no longer wish to be.
— Rei, Advice and Trust
"You've found something to live for, not just die for."
— Lee "Apollo" Adama to Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, Battlestar Galactica (2003)
"So what?! This world is still worth protecting!"
— Kira Yamato, in response to Rau Le Creuset's In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves speech regarding the world, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
"So you have come, my nemesis. I have come to a sudden realization, I have previously stated to Pilot Ikari that I could be replaced if I die, but I have seen the error in my judgment. Dying before I obtain my vengeance would be meaningless, so I will say this to you, I will survive so I may enact my revenge upon you. This is a promise, my nemesis."
— Rei Ayanami, Rise of the Minisukas
"There's always something to die for. But something worth living for? That doesn't come every day."
— Blackwall, Dragon Age: Inquisition
"I was never afraid before you showed up."
— Bill, The Last of Us (2023)
