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“But even if I acted sad over it, nothing would change. Even if I cry, nothing would change.”
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The best anime quotes about despair.
“But even if I acted sad over it, nothing would change. Even if I cry, nothing would change.”
“Even if we painstakingly piece together something lost, it doesn't mean things will ever go back to how they were.”
“Since childhood, my body was weak. There was a limit to what I could do. A weak body... A life which I don't know how long I would live for. Well, life has its limits. I felt like my limit was exceeding faster than others' limit.”
“Boredom - there are people that blast their own brain away just to escape from this beast.”
“Please tell me, if I could never have happiness in real life, can't I at least get to dream about it sometimes?”
“This is the end of my dream. My wings forgot how to fly, since I only kept pretending to flap them. Is there a meaning to wings that can't fly?”
“Someone has to be cursed to balance out a wish for someone else's happiness. That's how we, magical girls, work.”
“A lie yields hope when you realize it's a lie. On the other hand, when you feel that a cruel fact is reality, you fall into despair all the more.”
“On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the titans, and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.”
“Hey Nana, if Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show?”
“It's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is more miserable than himself. That's why so much animosity exists on the internet. Those who aren't able to find a more miserable person, turn to the internet and call other people losers, even though they've never met. Just to make themselves feel superior. Isn't that pathetic? There's a sense of security that comes from speaking badly of someone else. But that isn't true salvation.”
“I woke up feeling refreshed, after dreaming about a long shower. But of course, it was an illusion.”
“Now that the rainy season has started, it rains quite a lot. I don't like the rainy season. As the humidity rises, so does the misery. And recently, more things that contribute to my misery have sprung up around me...”
“I've never been so grateful to have walls to shut the world out.”
“What exactly would change if I wanted revenge, was consumed by hatred, or went insane with rage?”
“When we were still in the world of living, death was something that came indiscriminately and randomly. So, there was no way to fight it.”
“When you're in a town like this, all covered with smoke - you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that. Used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.”
“They say if you change yourself, you'll change the world, but that's a complete lie. When people judge somebody, it becomes a fixed idea and an impression that lasts. A loner is forced to stay a loner. If you do your best at something and stand out, that'll only get used as fodder for criticism. Those are the rules of the Kingdom of Children.”
““Expectations” are what you have when you have given up. Expectations are born from a despairingly large difference in skill.”
