Kaworu Nagisa quotes from Neon Genesis Evangelion

Kaworu Nagisa

Songs are good. Singing brings us joy. It is the highest point in the culture that Lilims have created.

Kaworu Nagisa

This is mankind’s fate. The thread of human hope is spun with the flax of sorrow.

Kaworu Nagisa

Hello, you weren't waiting here for me were you?

Shinji Ikari

No, Uh-well, not really waiting anyway.

Kaworu Nagisa

So what are you doing for the rest of the day?

Shinji Ikari

Well, usually when tests are over I'll just take a shower and go home. But I really don't want to go home these days.

Kaworu Nagisa

The fact that you have a place where you can return, home, will lead you to happiness. That is a good fact.

Shinji Ikari

You think so?

Kaworu Nagisa

I want to talk to you some more. May I come with you? To the shower I mean. Aren’t you going to the shower?

Shinji Ikari

Yeah.

Kaworu Nagisa

Or do you mean no?

Shinji Ikari

No, I don’t mean no…

Kaworu Nagisa

You are extremely afraid of any kind of initial contact aren’t you? Are you that afraid of other people? I know that by keeping others at a distance you avoid a betrayal of your trust, for while you may not be hurt that way, you mustn’t forget that you must endure the loneliness. Man cannot erase this sadness, because all men are fundamentally alone.

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

Uh-no! I think you have your own room that they gave you I mean!

Kaworu Nagisa

Okay. You know pain is something man must endure in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily some believe life is pain. You are delicate like glass, especially your heart.

Shinji Ikari

I am?

Kaworu Nagisa

Yes, and worth earning my empathy.

Shinji Ikari

Empathy?

Kaworu Nagisa

I'm saying I love you.

Kaworu Nagisa

What did you want to say to me?

Shinji Ikari

Wha… What?

Kaworu Nagisa

You wanted to tell me something didn’t you?

Shinji Ikari

So much has happened since I came here. Before this I lived with my teacher. It was calm and boring in those days. I wasn’t really doing anything, but I was fine with that. There was really nothing I had to do.

Kaworu Nagisa

Did you hate dealing with people?

Shinji Ikari

More or less. But I didn’t really care as much, however I really hated my father. [Says to himself] Why am I telling all this to Kaworu?

Kaworu Nagisa

I think I may have been born just to meet you, Shinji Ikari.

Kaworu Nagisa

Humans cannot create from nothingness. Humans cannot accomplish anything without holding on to something. Humans are not gods.

But there is one man trying to obtain the power of god.

There is a man, who is not one of us, who seeks to re-open Pandora's Box.

There is a man attempting to close the box before the hope at the bottom appears.

Kaworu Nagisa

The hope? You’re saying this is the Lilim's hope?

Hope exists in as many forms as there are people.

For the human heart is the only place where hope exists.

However our hope is becoming substantiated.

That is Lilith the progenitor of mankind. The false successors from the black moon.

And also Adam, progenitor of the angels, who are the true successors of the lost white moon .

His salvaged soul exists only within you.

Yet his resurrected body exists within Ikari.

Kaworu Nagisa

Shinji’s father? So he also is the same as me.

That is so. And that is why we entrust you with our wish.

Kaworu Nagisa

All of this I know. Is that why I am here after all?

Kaworu Nagisa

The Eva series was born from Adam, born from man's antithesis. And yet the Lilim will utilize that which they hate most in order to survive. I do not understand.

Shinji Ikari

Kaworu stop! Why is this happening!?

Kaworu Nagisa

Your Evas and I are composed of the same matter. Born from Adam, I can synchronize with it easily as long as there is no dominate soul. And Unit 02’s soul is now hiding itself. Thus Eva 02 is mine!

Shinji Ikari

You’ve got your own A.T. Field?!

Kaworu Nagisa

Yes; at least, this is what you Lilim call this thing. This is the light of my soul, a sacred territory in which no one may intrude. Aren’t you Lilim even aware yet, that your so-called A.T. Field is merely that wall that encloses every mind that exists?

Shinji Ikari

I don’t understand what you’re talking about!

Kaworu Nagisa

Adam, that from which we came. Must one who was born from Adam return to Adam, even though it would destroy man? But wait… This isn’t… Lilith?! I see! I understand now! The Lilim, Lilith!

Kaworu Nagisa

I thank you, Shinji. I wanted you to take Unit 2 from me. Otherwise, with her, I might have survived much longer.

Shinji Ikari

Kaworu, but why?

Kaworu Nagisa

It is my destiny to live forever, though my survival will bring final destruction to the human race. However, it is possible for me to be killed, and whether I live or die makes no great difference. In truth, death may be the only absolute freedom there is.

Shinji Ikari

What are you.. Kaworu, I don't understand what you are talking about, Kaworu..

Kaworu Nagisa

This is my wish: please, destroy me. Otherwise, you will be destroyed. Only one life-form can be chosen to evade the destruction and seize the future! And you are not the existence which should die. You need the future; it is what you live for! Thank you Shinji, my life was meaningful because of you.

Gendo

I've waited so long for this moment to arrive. I will finally be with you again, Yui. When Shinji is near me, all I ever do is cause him pain. I thought it was better when I did nothing at all.

Were you afraid of Shinji?

Gendo

I didn't believe that anyone could love me. I never deserved to be loved.

Kaworu

So, you were running away. And you rejected the others around you, so there was no chance that you would ever be hurt.

And you were terrified by the invisible bonds that people form.

Rei

You were afraid and so you closed off your heart.

Gendo

And so, this is my retribution. Forgive me, Shinji.