Anime Quotes About Grief

Anime is unusually willing to sit inside loss rather than resolve it. The lines that stay with people who have lost someone, from stories that never rush.

A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Jean Pierre Polnareff JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Read against the character's own history
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Jolyne Cujoh JoJo's Bizarre Adventure What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Yuji Itadori Jujutsu Kaisen What the line costs later
“A person who feels nothing at the death of those close to him is no different than a butcher.”
Jiraiya Naruto What the story had to build
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Asuka Langley Soryu Neon Genesis Evangelion What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Spike Spiegel Cowboy Bebop What the story had to build
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Gren Cowboy Bebop Read against the character's own history
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Cornelia li Britannia Code Geass What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Mao Code Geass The contrarian read
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Marianne vi Britannia Code Geass What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Quatre Raberba Winner Mobile Suit Gundam Wing What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Quatre Raberba Winner Mobile Suit Gundam Wing The case against this line
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Vash the Stampede Trigun What the story had to build
“You had me kinda worried. I noticed you always smile and seem really friendly, but the way you smiled was so empty it hurt to watch you. You're hurting like crazy on the inside, yet you grin and bear it.”
Nicholas D. Wolfwood Trigun Read against the character's own history
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Alphonse Elric Fullmetal Alchemist What the line costs later
“To be Hokage is your dream Naruto, isn't it? One more time, just one more time, for the last time, I want those words to be true.”
Tsunade Naruto Read against the character's own history
“Do you see him, Nawaki, Dan? Be at peace, my beloveds. Your dream is still alive.”
Tsunade Naruto What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Kaworu Nagisa Neon Genesis Evangelion The case against this line
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Euphemia li Britannia Code Geass What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Nunnally vi Britannia Code Geass What the story had to build
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Suzaku Kururugi Code Geass The strongest objection, answered
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Euphemia li Britannia Code Geass The case against this line
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Kakashi Hatake Naruto What the line costs later
A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Kakashi Hatake Naruto The strongest objection, answered

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If grief is the thread you are pulling, the book worth your time is A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis. It says in three hundred pages what the quotes above say in a line each, and the three approaches feed each other.

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Anime Quotes About Grief

Themes that travel with grief

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