Masashi Kishimoto Quotes

Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

Give up trying to make me give up

Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.

But you ... You helped me find my way and take the correct path, Naruto ... I always chased after you ... wanting to catch up ... wanting to walk together with you forever ... I want to be at your side, always ... You changed me, Naruto! Your smiling face saved me! And that's way I'm not afraid to die, defending you! Because ... I love you ...

I keep thinking Naruto ... That one of these days your going to finally grow up!

I was raised on ramen and hard work!

She's strong! And scary ... I bet she's single ... I'd put money on it..

Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang.

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams ... A place of peace and harmony ... that's the kind of land I invision.

I won't run away anymore... I won't go back on my word... that is my ninja way!

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call "reality". However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

Live your life so that you'll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.

When a person dies, he disappears, along with his past, current lifestyle, and his future. Many people die in missions and wars. They die easily and in surprisingly simple ways. Hayate was one of them. Those who died had hopes and dreams, but everyone has something as important as those: parents, siblings, friends, lovers; people who are important to you, they trust and help each other. The bond between the people important to you ever since birth and the string that binds them becomes thicker and stronger as time goes by ... It's beyond reason. Those bound to you by that string will do that because it is important.

It's because we help out when they're in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.
-Shikamaru Nara

Shut up or I'll kill you.

Darkness ... When everything that you know and love ... is taken from you so harshly ... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge ... and no one can save you.

One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever.
- Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it's a fake one.

I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!

When did you throw yourselves away?

Ii isn't thet if you become Hokage, everyone will acknowldege you. It's the ones who are acknowledged that can become Hokage.

Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name!
Gaara: I couldn't care less.

I'm ... I'm so in love with you that I can't even stand it! Sasuke! Stay with me, and I'll never let you regret it! We'll have fun every day, and ... And you'll be happy! I'll make sure of it! I'll do anything for you, Sasuke! Just, please ... Please, please don't go! I'll even help you take revenge! I mean, I'll manage it somehow, so ... So please ... Stay with me.

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Art is an explosion.

It is not wise to judge others based on your own preconceptions and by their appearances.

Now there's something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. to be able to share it with another person ... Naruto Uzumaki from fighting him i learned that. he knew pain like i did and then he taught me that you can change your path. I wish that one day i can be needed by someone. Not as a frightening weapon ... But as the sand's Kazekage.

Because they saved me from myself, they rescued me from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.
-Naruto Uzumaki

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

Forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do,
the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

Those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called filth, but those who don't care about their companions... are even lower than filth.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts ... Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Say, sis... Time is flowing slowly, but it's flowing.

Disappeare with the thunder....... Sasuke said

It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being.
Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself.
You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

Gaara: Can Sasuke come out to Die? Kakashi: Not Now. Gaara: ... Gaara: How 'bout now?

Those who cannot acknowledge themselves will eventually fail.

Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.

Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions.

I don't care if he's your grand mother

Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.

So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go ?

Naruto-kun, I understand your feelings so much that it hurts. But the fighting should occur in the matches.
Whether a loser can defeat an elite through the power of hardwork. That's something to look forward to in the main test... Though his opponent might be me. But even if it's you, Naruto-kun, there will be no hard feelings.

Sorry I'm late guys, a black cat crossed my path so I had to go the long way.

Sakura...Thank you.

Hatred is the feeling created to protect love.

Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet..
-Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary

For awhile, I thought that was love.
-Gaara

Three times now... We've fought world wars for our own nations, our own villages. We've hurt one another. We've hated one another. That hatred bred a lust for power, and that lust for power created ME. I was a Jinchuuriki, the embodiment of hatred and power. And I hated this world, and all the people in it... I wanted to destroy it with my own hands. The exact same thing Akatsuki is trying to do today. But one man, one ninja from Konoha stopped me. I was his enemy, yet he wept for me! I hurt him, yet he called me his friend! He saved me! My enemy, my fellow Jinchuuriki... He suffered the same pain as me, yet bore no ill will! There are no enemies here because we've all suffered at Akatsuki's hand! SO THERE IS NO SAND, NO STONE, NO LEAF, NO MIST, NO CLOUD! THERE ARE ONLY SHINOBI! And if you still hold a grudge against the Sand, then when this war is over, come and take my head instead! Our enemies are after the friend who saved my life! If they take him, if we hand him over, our world is finished! I want to protect him, and I want to protect our world! But I'm too young to protect it all on my own! All of you lend me your aid!

Even the strongest of opponents always has a weakness.
-Itachi Uchiha

A scary but yet beautiful smile

It's nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him

We were alone and starved for love. Kids that lived in a world full of hate.

Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy.
-Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196

I'm just being selfish ... I'm here on my own free will ... I used to always cry and give up ... I nearly went the wrong way ... But you ... You showed me the right way ... I was always chasing you ... Wanting to overtake you ... I just wanted to walk with you ... I wanted to be with you ... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I
Love You ...

The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.

Once you question your own belief, it's over."
-Naruto Uzumaki

I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do.

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know ... what truly matters ...

For the records I lose graduation exam three times. Cause there was this one jutsu there always on the exam. It trip me every time. It was one jutsu I couldn't master. Yes, my clones were pathetic, I flown the shadow clone jutsu every time. So don't come whining to ne this destiny stuff and stop trying to tell me you can't change what your are. You can do it too, cause after all unlike me you are not a failure.

Hey ... You.. What's life without eyebrows, freak? Got a new listing for your bingo book right here!! A guyis going to be the next lord hokage of Konohagakure village. Uzumaki Naruto! Konoha-school NINJA!

I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born ... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi ... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me ...

Got to keep thatin mind. I'm a ninja now ... I swore I'd never freeze up or run away again ... AND I WON'T ... !

When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.

Peace under an illusion is not true peace. It's only meaningful if the real world manages to accomplish it.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.

Hidan: That was pitiful! What happened there, buddy?
Kakuzu: You should talk. I wasn't the one who fell for a shadow clone!
Hidan: Ahaha, right. You saw that?

For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless. -Maito Gai (Naruto)

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

Looks can be decieving

Peace is actually a troublesome beast. (...) It is hard to produce, but maintaining it is hard to impossible.

If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way ... Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me

No, you don't get it, thats why I'm telling you. You think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it? (Kakashi)

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us humans.

Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk ...
Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is ... the existence of me!

It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know.

Hidan: Hey, look at that, it's my headband! You went to the trouble of picking it up and keeping for me? I'm touched. You're a pretty nice guy, Kakuzu, you knwo that?
Kakuzu: Shut up. Let's go.
Hidan: Let me put it on at least! Okay, I'm coming. Admit it, you like me a little, doncha?
Kakuzu: Either you shut up, or I'll kill you.
Hidan: Haha, you're embarrassed! I understand.

We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light.
-Gaara

A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive.
Gaara

If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.

That's my Shinobi Way

There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up

To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.

A genius, huh? What does that mean? 'Genius'? So I was not born with a whole lot of natural talent, not gifted like Neji ... but I work hard and I never give up! That is my gift; that is my ninja way!