Death Note Manga Quotes

Yeah, even if I see a human with a Shinigami, I tell you.-Ryuk ~ Tsugumi Ohba

Justice will prevail! ~ Tsugumi Ohba

I have two rules:
First, I'm never wrong.
Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule."

L Lawliet ~ Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note

If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. ~ Tsugumi Ohba

An eye for an eye my friend. ~ Tsugumi Ohba

Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?
L: Damn you, Kira ... ~ Tsugumi Ohba

Come on, don't look so serious. It's not like it's a Death Note. ~ Tsugumi Ohba

Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is ... there is no conclusion yet. ~ Osamu Tezuka

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games ... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it. ~ Tite Kubo

You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake.
-L (from Death Note) ~ Tsugumi Ohba

Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life? ~ Sui Ishida

There are some things "Sorry" can't fix. Life is all about regrets. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

(From the Manga) Whoever solves this puzzle shall be granted one wish ... like the dragon balls ... ~ Kazuki Takahashi

The greatest loss is the lost of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To hell with Kira.
What matters to me is L.
L ~ NisiOisiN

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!' ~ Natsuki Takaya

Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators. ~ Takashi Murakami

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once. ~ Shahrukh Husain

The departed souls shall never return. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if there are no new Mighty Atom manga or films created, the Mighty Atom character has become a permanent fixture of both Japanese and global pop culture. ~ Frederik L. Schodt

Would we believe their story; if the dead should return? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death ~ Kirsten Beyer

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art. ~ Takashi Murakami

Death is the final destination of every man. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Have you ever, for even a second, thought about how hard it is for people like me just to stay alive? ~ Inio Asano

Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga. ~ Natsuki Takaya

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death. ~ Ai Yazawa

Most of the kids I know read only manga, but I prefer novels. Novels are closer to real life than manga, it's like they show you the real world with one layer peeled away, a reality you can't see otherwise. ~ Natsuo Kirino

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note. ~ Herbie Hancock

Death by drowning, death by snakebite ... death by memory loss, death by claymore ... death by paper cuts, death by whoreknife, death by poker game ... death by authority, death by isolation, death by genocide, death by Kennedy ... death by signature, death by silence ... death by performance ~ Colum McCann

No one knows the dead world? Only the dead spirits? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are - their work should speak for itself. ~ Tsugumi Ohba

Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over. ~ Andy Summers

Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. ~ Langston Hughes

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. ~ Orlando Gibbons

He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either ... some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess. ~ Banana Yoshimoto

Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. ~ Horace

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. ~ Joe Pass

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan. ~ Takashi Murakami

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters. ~ Deborah Harkness

Every note played is a life and death. ~ Lisa Genova

Just so you know, Araragi-kun, I hate romantic comedies where it is obvious the two will get together at the end but lukewarm developments keep them at an in-between more-than-friends-less-than-lovers state chapter after chapter just to keep the story going."
" ... I see."
"Incidentally, I also hate sports manga where each match takes an entire year and yet you know they are going to win in the end. I also hate battle manga where it is clear they will defeat the final boss and bring peace to the world, but the battles with weaker enemies go on forever."
"I think you just covered every shounen manga and shoujo manga in existence."
- Senjougahara Hitagi & Araragi Koyomi ~ NisiOisiN

It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Call me what you want; I'm still taking your cake. ~ Lu

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better? ~ Dan Hicks

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit of everything. ~ Holly Black

Misa: I can't imagine a world without Light!
L: Yes,that would be dark. ~ Tsugumi Ohba

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? ~ Alphonse De Lamartine

The third proved problematic. Until the case reached it's end I was reduced to nothing but an absent gaze. Think of it this way: I was a pair of abstract eyes walking around wearing my flesh as a disguise. Living as such, there was no point in expecting any form of societal responsibility or human reaction. ~ Kiyoshi Kasai

The bell tolls with a painful note afar
When man drops in the dreadful jaws of death
But human beasts watch death with mouth ajar
While lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death ~ Manuel Newton-Management Consultant Poet MA M.Com LLB ICWA FIBAM FIMM Etc

There is no such thing as a wrong note. ~ Art Tatum

If you use your head even sweets wont make you fat. ~ L Lawliet

You must first die before you're killed. ~ Tsugumi Ohba

This world is rotten. The rotten should die. ~ Tsugumi Ohba

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held. ~ Renee Fleming

I detested you, at the moment of my death ... My soul cannot move beyond that ... As long as you live, I cannot rest!
-Kikyo to Kagome ~ Rumiko Takahashi

There is an end to every journey.
Even life will come to an end one moment in time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.
'Sorry,' said the note.
'Just not big enough. ~ John Irving

Not a sound, but a sort of silence, a faint hum like the space between note and note in a song. ~ Madeline Miller

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical. ~ Nicolaus Copernicus

A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

It is strange how love is a source for power––can spur the desire to fight to the death, or to fight back from something that seems like death for long enough to write a coherent note––but also of weakness. ~ Beth Fantaskey

also advise you to check Oracle Support note 47358.1 (Init.ora Parameter STAR_TRANSFORMATION_ENABLED Reference Note). It gives you a list of the bugs affecting each specific version. ~ Christian Antognini

The dead neither see nor ear. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Four thousand years ago, an Egyptian wrote out his despair onto papyrus in the form of a narrative and four short-versed poems. This document, now in the Berlin Museum, is thought by British psychiatrist Chris Thomas to be the first suicide note [...]

"Death is before me today
As a man longs to see his house
When he has spent years in captivity. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn. ~ Mike Norton

Misa: I can't even imagine a world without light!
L: Well yes, that would be quite dark. ~ Takeshi Obata

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! ~ Count Basie

This is the nice note, I can't help thinking. But just like a sound, as soon as the note hits the air, it begins to fade. ~ David Levithan

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over. ~ Fisher Stevens

Note to self ;
He doesn't care anymore. ~ Lyla Tyela Belikov

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope. ~ Evelyn Underhill

Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ... ' " ~ Eddie Izzard

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong. ~ Miles Davis

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note. ~ John Carpenter

Why play a chord when you can play one note? ~ Alex Kapranos

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this."
But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all."
His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit. ~ Hiromu Arakawa

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT. ~ Terry Pratchett

She breathes music. Lives it and bleeds it. Her headphones have become her heartbeat. Her lyrics are her life. Music is her outlet of pain, love, and rage. Every note unplayed is another minute unlived. Every song unsung is another moment lost forever. She relies on music to show her the way, make fantasies real and to ease the pain of everyday life. Each day is another chance to create pure artistry. Music is the reason she is who she is...the good and the bad. Her life without it is like a bird without wings or lungs with out air. Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Her life is her music. Her death will be the note unsaid. ~ -x-Myistic-x

I found a note I wrote that said "Doctor's Appointment Tomorrow." Well, that note is wrong, because that appointment was yesterday. ~ Jarod Kintz

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record. ~ Lita Ford

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. ~ William Shakespeare

I give my love to the unloved. ~ Tehnominator

Maybe all people who do bad things…are just really lonely. ~ CLAMP

By the day's end I realized that there were a zillion ways to apologize to someone, but none of them mattered if you never opened your mouth. ~ Jennifer Jabaley

A good exercise for identifying intervals is to sing them. Sing one note, any note, and then try to sing, let's say, a perfect fourth above it. ~ Skip Morris

One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace. ~ Stephen Craig

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it. ~ Tim Roth

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in. ~ Milan Kundera

If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due. ~ Walter Wriston

I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave. ~ Jayne Meadows

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony. ~ Guy Laliberte

Selfishness from earth to hereafter: Thy pray and struggle, same by thee. Because life committed selfishness in living with the Democracy. ~ Deh Gel

If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. ~ Nick Cave