The Berserker/Quotes

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"As his axe split a charging enemy from shoulder to hip, Grom Hellscream felt the joy and rage swirling within him, dulling his mind, charging his senses, threatening to sweep him away on a tide of raw exultation. He wanted to surrender himself, to give in to the song of combat, to lose himself in the thrill of death and destruction and victory."
"KILL! MAIM! BURN! KILL! MAIM! BURN! KILL! MAIM! BURN!"
Kharn the Betrayer, Warhammer 40,000
"ALL SHALL BE LOST TO YOU!"
The Blackshields did not attack in a line, but came in a howling mass. This was the Irish way of war, a terrifying assault of maddened men who came to the slaughter like lovers.
The Warlord Chronicles describing an entire army of berserkers.
Bodvar Bjarki ploughed into them now, hacking two handed, his only thought to do as much damage as he could before he fell. And now they fall in heaps before him, one on top of another, and both his arms are bloodied to the shoulder, and he felled so many, the dead were stacked all about him. He stormed on as if he was insane.
The Saga of Hrolf Kraki, chapter 51: "Of Skuld's Battle"