Top 25 Characters 2026

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Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky
Pathologic
You're a liar and a thief. Who is going to believe you when you keep lying to yourself? The truth is my shepherd. Whatever happens, I will find answers, and justice will be restored. I will perform the operation. Medicum morbo adhibere

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Queen Cersei Lannister
A Song of Ice and Fire
We let her taste our blood, and laughed at her stupid prophecies. None of them made the least bit of sense. She was going to be Prince Rhaegar's wife, no matter what the woman said. Her father had promised it, and Tywin Lannister's word was gold

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Gaara of the Desert
Naruto
This is what I came up with: I exist to kill all humans other than myself. Living in constant fear, knowing I might be assassinated at any time, I finally found inner peace. By killing those that sought to kill me, I was able to justify my existence

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Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky
War and Peace
It is not enough for me to know what I have in me—everyone must know it: Pierre, and that young girl who wanted to fly away into the sky, everyone must know me, so that my life may not be lived for myself alone while others live so apart from it

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Harry Haller
The Steppenwolf
Of course they don't want to think; they were made for living, not for thinking! Yes, and whoever thinks, whoever makes thinking his primary aim, can make good progress in it, but he has exchanged the land for the water and one day he will drown

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Satoru Yukidoh
Infinity
"Red accepts blue entirely," is what it means. Maybe I've been trapped by that phenomenon myself. Of course, it's because you're here that this phenomenon came into existence in the first place, though...

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Victor Kain
Pathologic
So this is what the dark void of death looks like. So the true Nothingness, unlike true magic, can indeed be firmly grasped-with a steel ring, and one of a not particularly large calibre at that!

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Damian Wayne
Detective Comics Universe
This island is my punishment for that. With my first death here, I knew this was the place for me. Where I could find out if I'm really the monster people keep telling me I am... but I'll never stop until I know if the darkness I feel is real

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Anna Arkadyevna Karenina
Anna Karenina
She was weeping that her dream of her position being made clear and definite had been annihilated forever. She knew beforehand that everything would go on in the old way, and far worse, indeed, than in the old way

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Lord Jon Connington
A Song of Ice and Fire
His father and his father's father had never lost their lands. He had. I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell

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Lady Sansa Stark
A Song of Ice and Fire
I am not your daughter, she thought. I am Sansa Stark, Lord Eddard's daughter and Lady Catelyn's, the blood of Winterfell. She did not say it, though

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Artemy Burakh
Pathologic
Polyhedron. This is the price that has to be paid for procuring enough raw material to create tons of panacea. I would keep the Settlement, of course; an abandoned dangerous place is a hundredfold worse than an inhabited one that's ruled with resolve

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Ser Jaime Lannister
A Song of Ice and Fire
That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead

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Count Nikolai Ilyich Rostov
War and Peace
In myself alone and in that sunshine there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and this uncertainty and hurry... There—they are shouting again, and again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, death

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Naruto Uzumaki
Naruto
I wasn't alone anymore!! I never imagined it would be so joyful and happy. I'm so... grateful, deeply grateful. It's okay for me to be alive... to exist. That's why when I think about the past, it makes me shudder. That pain wasn't anything

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Oswald Cobblepot
Gotham
When you spared my life on the pier that day, banished me from Gotham, that was the most lost I’ve ever been. Because I was away from the city, you see. It’s part of me. You know what I’m talking about, because it’s part of you, too

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Antoine Roquentin
Nausea
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason

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Sasuke Uchiha
Naruto
My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things, and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan and kill a certain someone

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Shuichi Shindo
Gravitation
I'm absolutely afraid of facing reality. The reason I can pursue something with no fear is because I am afraid to go without it

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Eva Ushiromiya
When They Cry
I felt like she was the only ally I had who would sympathize with me. However, while sympathy would calm my heart somewhat, it would not do anything to improve my current situation. In the end, she could only console me when I was dejected by reality

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Lord Tyrion Lannister
A Song of Ice and Fire
It all goes back and back, Tyrion thought, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads

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Princess Arianne Martell
A Song of Ice and Fire
The sky was full of stars. So many. She leaned her back against a fluted pillar and wondered if her brother was looking at the same stars tonight, wherever he might be. Do you see the white one, Quentyn? That is Nymeria's star

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Yulia Lyuricheva
Pathologic
I am to perform the most precious feat of all, the feat of self-sacrifice. I will do what Simon has done-every single particle of my body and soul will become lifebearing, bursting with life and granting it to others. There will be no cannon fire

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Lord Petyr Baelish
A Song of Ice and Fire
It is quite vexing. I had hoped to have four or five quiet years to plant some seeds and allow some fruits to ripen, but now... it is a good thing that I thrive on chaos

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