“You know the first rule in combat? shoot them before they shoot you.” – Faye Valentine
“The past is the past and the future is the future. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. The present is the present. I am who I am and you are who you are. That’s all there is to it. Does it really matter? Or do we just think it does?” – Faye Valentine
“Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. We deceive or we are deceived. Thus, we flourish or perish. Nothing good ever happened to me when I trusted others. That is the lesson.” – Faye Valentine
“They often say that humans can’t live alone. But you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it’s better to be alone in your solitude.” – Faye Valentine
“I have no fear of death. It just means dreaming in silence. A dream that lasts for eternity.” – Vincent Volaju
“No one can draw a clear line between sane and insane. You move that line as you see fit for yourself. No one else can. You’ll understand soon… that the one that’s insane is this world.” – Vincent Volaju
“Know much about purgatory? It’s the place between heaven and hell, where those who were left behind, unable to get into heaven continue to suffer, a place of struggle and pain. In other words, the world that we’re in now.” – Vincent Volaju
“It’s just like Charlie said in my dream. If you want to receive you have to give. See Spike, you got to listen to your dreams, that’s how you find your dream girl.” – Jet Black
“Men always seem to think about their past before they die, as though they were frantically searching for proof that they truly lived.” – Jet Black
“You were always there for me, and that’s all I needed. Just you. For some reason, I didn’t feel sad or broken up, it just didn’t seem real. But slowly I realized it was real – that you were gone. And little by little, I slowly felt something inside me go numb.” – Jet Black
“Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable. We have to face them. It’s what being human is all about.” – Jet Black
“When you and I first met, you told me something. You said that you had died once, that you had seen death. Why can’t you just let it go? Forget the past.” – Jet Black
“Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I’ve been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was over.” – Spike Spiegel
“I was younger then, I wasn’t afraid of anything, I didn’t think about dying for a second. I thought I was invincible. Then I met some girl. I wanted to live, I started to think like that; for the first time I was afraid of death. I had never felt like that before.” – Spike Spiegel
“A fallen angel banished from heaven, arises into the light to be received by the benevolence of God.” – Cowboy Bebop
“I love the type of woman who can kick my ass.” – Spike Spiegel
“Once, there was a tiger striped cat. This cat, died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives. And he had various owners that he didn’t really care about, the cat wasn’t afraid to die. Then ONE day, he met a white female cat, the two of them fell in love and lived together happily. Well, the years went by and the white female cat got old and passed away. The Tiger Striped cat cried a million times, then he also died. But this time…..he didn’t come back.” – Spike Spiegel
“There are three things I hate the most: Kids, pets, and women with attitude. So tell me, why do we have all of them packed into our ship?” – Spike Spiegel
“Don’t you want to hang out and waste your life with us?” – Spike Spiegel
“I’m not going there to die. I’m going there to find out if I’m really alive.” – Spike Spiegel
“Do not fear Death. Death is always at our side. When we show fear, it jumps at us faster than light. But, if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently and then guides us into infinity.” – Laughing Bull
“Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become devils.” – Vicious
“There is nothing left to believe in.” – Vicious
“You said that you didn’t need comrades, but I’m attached to that word… to the point of tears.” – Gren