Gintama – Anime Quotes

I have an organ more important than my heart. Although you can’t see it, I feel it going through my head down to my feet, and I know it exists within me. It lets me stand on my feet, it lets me walk forward without trembling. If I stop here, I feel like it would break… My soul will break. Even if I become a hunchbacked old man, I will still go forward.

Anime – it’s not something that can be thought of in a hall for conferences. It is made out of strange juices current from the brain of animators.

People need to live their life with a clear conscience. When you want to walk on a straight path, somehow you get yourself stained with mud. However, as long as we never give up, one day the mud on you will dry up and fall off.

A farewell is like the other side of a coin. It will only happen when there is an encounter.

Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you’ll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else.

Bad things always happen, unlike good ones. You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you.

It’s as if you are stuck in some predetermined program, following some predetermined script. If you really want to live in reality, then fight against it. Break through destiny with your own hands, and build your own reality! Isn't this real life? Isn't that a real player? The one who plays the game of life?!

Planets are just places for people to stand on. Planets are just rocks. It takes people to make it a world.

There is no need for any proof. There is no need to create any. We just have to live every second to the fullest, and the traces of the path we lived will burn into the ground. That will serve as proof of our existence.

The night is in its darkest just before dawn. But keep your eyes open.

Sake sure is nice. You can forget your troubles if only for a moment. You’ll have to remember them tomorrow though, and they’ll be even more painful than they were the night before. You can’t run away from things like this. Especially from things you really want to forget.

When your friend is crying, cry with him. When your friend is worried, you should worry with him. And when your friend has an awkward bowel movement, then you must have an awkward bowel movement too, Shin-chan. If you are a friend, you should be able to share the other’s pain, no matter what. And Shin-chan, if your friend goes down the wrong path… Then, you must stop your friend, even if it ruins your friendship. That is true samurai friendship.

If you run into a wall and pretend it doesn’t exist, you’ll never make progress. The wall will never change, so you’re the one who has to change. Now you're just making excuses to the wall.

There are two things people fear… those are death and embarrassment. Those who try to overcome death are just idiots, but I won’t laugh at those who try to overcome their embarrassment. I like those kind of idiots.

No matter how beautiful a person may be, they will still age and ultimately – die. But even so, even if appearances change, don’t you believe that we have, in us, things that don’t change? Even as our bodies crumble, even as the months and years take their toll… don’t you believe that we all have something that time can’t spoil?

How can one understand love from acquired experience? Love is based on unpredictable events.