Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV Series)

The Beginning and the End, or 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' (1996)

Megumi Ogata: Shinji Ikari

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Quotes 

• Kaworu Nagisa : Humans constantly feel pain in their hearts. Because the heart is so sensitive to pain, humans also feel that to live is to suffer. You're so delicate, like glass, especially your heart.

  Shinji Ikari : Me?

  Kaworu Nagisa : Yes, and you have my regard for it.

  Shinji Ikari : Regard?

  Kaworu Nagisa : In other words, I love you.

• [Unit-01 grips Kaworu in its left hand] 

  Shinji Ikari : Kaworu-kun, why?

  Kaworu Nagisa : Because it's my destiny to continue to live, even if it may result in the destruction of humanity. But I can also die here. Life and death are of equal value to me. Dying of your own will. That is the one and only absolute freedom there is.

  Shinji Ikari : What? Kaworu-kun, I don't understand what you're saying! Kaworu-kun...

  Kaworu Nagisa : And, you are not a being who should die. Your people need the future. Thank you. I'm glad I met you.

  [for a long, long moment, Shinji and the EVA hold still, as Kaworu looks up at them. Then, the fist closes with a loud crush] 

• [last lines] 

  Shinji Ikari : Kaworu-kun said that he loved me. It was... it was the first time someone told me they loved me. He was like me, and Ayanami. I loved him. Kaworu-kun was the one who should have survived. He was a much better person than I am. Kaworu-kun should have been the one to survive.

  Misato Katsuragi : You're wrong. Only those who have the will to live get to survive. He wished to die. He abandoned his will to live, clinging instead to a false hope. You did nothing wrong, Shinji-kun.

  Misato Katsuragi : You're cold, Misato-san.

• Shinji Ikari : It's time.

  Kaworu Nagisa : Time to go?

  Shinji Ikari : Yeah. I have to go to bed.

  Kaworu Nagisa : With me?

  Shinji Ikari : [stutters]  No!