Summary
- Curating the list of best quotes from the anime Attack On Titan which sparks big effect on the viewers
- Eren Yeager brings out most of the cruel thoughts about the reality of the world
- Hajime Isayama penned down a masterpiece through his words of freedom and humanity
Attack on Titan, an anime adapted from the manga “Shingeki no Kyojin” which was written by Hajime Isayama. The anime focuses on the dark side of humanity, people’s greediness, freedom, and people killing each other cruelly for war. The story is solely related to Eren Yeager who tries to restore peace and humanity through Rumbling with destroying 80% of the human race. The end of the anime gives the message that peace is something that can never be acquired by humans as they will always find reasons to initiate war.
1. Erwin’s Death Speech to his soldiers
“Their memory serves as an example to us all! The courageous fallen! The anguished fallen! Their lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them! And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us! Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world! My soldiers push forward! My soldiers scream out! My soldiers RAAAAAGE!”
– Erwin Smith –
Season – Season 3 Part 2
Epi no – Episode 16 “Perfect Game”
Erwin’s final speech to his fellow soldiers to act as a decoy to take down the Beast Titan was a peak sacrificial plot with top-notch delivery marching to death while leading hundreds of soldiers in front. His speech delivers an immovable trust in his members of the Survey Corps and an immersive tribute to every fallen comrade of the Corps who has sacrificed themselves to protect humanity.
2. Eren’s quest for freedom and humanity
“If Someone Is Willing To Take My Freedom… I Won’t Hesitate To Take Theirs.”
– Eren Yeager –
Season – Season 4
Epi no – Episode 20 “Memories of the Future”
Eren’s character portrayal in the final saga of Attack On Titan visualizes a grey-shaded main character who wishes to take away everything to attain freedom and humanity. Eren was ready to go against the world to achieve his dream of cursing Marley to get back his revenge for destroying his homeland and humiliating Eldian’s existence.
3. Eren on protecting humanity
“How could anything be more important than keeping humanity from being wiped out?”
– Eren Yeager –
Season – Season 1
Eps no – Episode 2 “That Day Fall of Shiganshina”
In the first season of the series, Eren’s character is shown from a different angle, as a young boy who wants to save humanity from the Titans and live in peace within the walls. During the fall of his hometown, Shiganshina, by the Colossal Titan, Eren’s scream was more than enough to describe his will to protect humanity from being wiped out, but as a weak little kid, he couldn’t do enough.
4. Levi’s promise to his Captain
“Give Up On Your Dreams And Die For Us. I Will Take Down The Beast Titan.”
– Levi Ackerman –
Season – Season 3
Eps no – Episode 16 “Perfect Game”
Levi asks Erwin to march forward to death along with his soldier comrades, promising to kill the Beast Titan. In this moment, Levi takes up all of Erwin’s dreams, guilt, pain, and mysteries and vows to fulfill them for his captain. Levi kept up his promise by taking down Zeke in the final episode of the series.
5. One Last Time
“Shinzo Wo Sasageyo”
– Levi Ackerman –
Season – Season 4 Part 3
Eps no – Episode 1 “The Final Chapter Part 1 ”
The line describes “Give your heart” which is the motto of the Survey Corps to protect humanity at every cost. In the final battle, Hange acts as a decoy to fight the rumbling wall Titans letting Levi and others escape by sacrificing herself for all of her fallen comrades.
6. Fight to Live
“If You Win, You Live. If You Lose, You Die. If You Don’t Fight, You Can’t Win!”
– Eren Yeager –
Season – Season 4
Eps no – Episode 6 “The World the Girl Saw: The Struggle for Trost, Part 2 ”
Eren has always had a state of fear in dealing with life and overcoming the fear to protect everyone. Mikasa remembers her childhood story of getting kidnapped by the underworld mafia and Eren fights to save them. That was the time Eren told Mikasa to fight for everything to live and win.
7. Leadership lines of Levi
“No one knows what the outcome will be. So, choose whatever you’ll regret the least.”
– Levi Ackerman –
Season – Season 1
Eps no – Episode 19 “The 57th Exterior Scouting Mission, Part 3”
Levi has always been in a position to make important decisions for his fellow survey corps. The decisions made in every fight against the Titans of the series have always resulted in life or death. Levi’s quote is a call to select what aligns with your fundamental beliefs and the decisions you wouldn’t mind making later. This is the message that in an unpredictable world, the biggest risk is to live your life based on someone else’s dream.
8. Kenny's view of life
“Everyone had to be drunk on somethin’ to keep pushing on … Everyone was a slave to somethin’.”
– Kenny Ackermann –
Season – Season 3 Part 1
Eps no – Episode 10 “Friends”
Kenny’s final words to Levi before revealing he is the son of his biological sister portray the point of life of everyone who lives in this world. Whether you are a human, titan, or a member of the Survey Corp, something has to push life to go on and be dedicated to something to achieve while living. Kenny revealed the friendship that he had with Uri Reiss but still, he was never attracted towards the power of the titan and was never concerned to get injected with the titan’s powers.
9. Tatakae! Tatakae!
“It doesn’t matter how strong the opposition is. It doesn’t matter how fearsome the world is, it doesn’t matter how cruel the world is. Fight!”
– Eren Yeager –
Season – Season 1
Eps no – Episode 13 “The Struggle for Trost”
“Tatakae” is the main quote of the protagonist Eren Yeager from Attack Of Titan. Eren has always fought with himself to overcome his fear and fight against the Titans to protect humanity. Eren has always motivated his comrades in the battle to fight till the end to claim victory.
10. World of cruelty and good
“This world is cruel, and it’s also very beautiful.”
– Mikasa Ackerman –
Season – Season 1
Eps no – Episode 13 “The Struggle for Trost”
Mikasa has always depicted that the world they live in every day is very cruel yet so beautiful. Mikasa faced a cruel childhood witnessing the death of her parents right before her eyes, but she sees the hope of life when Eren saved her and the love she has for Eren made even this cruel world look beautiful.
Every day of them was cruel fighting and fearing the Titans, however, the humanity, and the bonds within the walls were peaceful and beautiful. The final ending song of Attack on Titan “Akuma no Ko” depicts the same quote of Mikasa’s in Eren’s point of view, the love he has for her made him destroy everything to protect her.
