The best anime quotes about self-discovery.
“The flash of light I felt when I was stabbed in the heart. The overwhelming torrent of death and the beat of life. I always thought I had nothing, but there is still that simple thing left in me. This fear that sends a chill down my spine. I have to feel the most death I can to feel the happiness of life. For everything in my life I have ignored until now. But it probably would be impossible to die like I did that night. I probably cannot hope for such a striking end. That death pierced me like lightning, like a needle, like a sword. That's why I will try to come as close to that as possible. I don't have any idea right now but I still have a few days to think about it. And I've already decided on the method. I don't think I even need to say this, but I think my end should be a long fall from a place overlooking the world.”
“It's probably a lie. The reason why I only stay for three days in any country. I'm afraid I'll settle down, if I stay too long. Because if I settled down, I would cease to be a traveler.”
“A man who raises his hands on a woman is trash. If I have to become trash in order to survive... It'll be just like dying.”
“I was the only one who got an A ranking for the Public Safety Bureau. There were more than 500 students and I was the only one. So I thought that there must have been something that only I could do at the Bureau. If I went there, I thought I could find my purpose in life... I thought I'd be able to find out why I was born here and now!”
“You don't have to worry about being special or normal compared to everyone else! It doesn't matter who it is. So as long as they think you're special, then you're special.”
“True, I've given up on the real world. However, I haven't given up on myself.”
“How worthless. Why are you saying things are impossible? You just decided that to make yourself feel better! Sure, there are things you can't do, things that seem impossible, but that's what makes everyone unique!”
“Assassination — It's the family trade. We all take it up. My folks see me as an exceptional prospect. But I don't see that I should have to live up to their expectations.”
“Because she learned about happiness, she feels lonely for the first time. And because she knows unhappiness, she understands happiness for the first time.”
“It's not that I hate the person in front of me. If I had met him under different circumstances, this never would have happened. But I did meet him that day, and now there is no turning back. I must distinguish the difference between past and present. Everything must be left behind, and the man in front of me is the wall; the wall that I must break through. There is only one direction for me to go. I have to move forward. That's what I'm thinking...”
“Everyone exists for a reason. As small as it can be. I'm sure you have a meaning too.”
“You keep imposing your ideals on them. Don't worry about other people. You only need to do what you think is right.”
“Unwilling to listen or see anything else, you lost yourself in your own world and became incapable of seeing the things around you.”
“I've been looking out at the world through windows I've opened across the net. It's an extremely close-minded and twisted world.”
“If you turn your back on something you wanted, you don't deserve to call yourself greed!”
“No matter what changes, I'll still be me. And I can be whoever I want to be!”
“Accepting something is easier said than done.”
“I am who I am now because of everything that's happened. If I try to deny my past, I'm denying the person I've become. I don't want to do that.”
