Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Masashi Kishimoto

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese artist Masashi Kishimoto.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist. His manga series, Naruto, which was in serialization from 1999 to 2014 and has sold over 250 million copies worldwide in 46 countries as of May 2019. The series has been adapted into two anime and multiple films, video games, and related media. Besides the Naruto manga, Kishimoto also personally supervised the two canonical anime films, The Last: Naruto the Movie and Boruto: Naruto the Movie, and has written several one-shot stories. In 2019, Kishimoto wrote Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru which ended in March 2020. From May 2016 through October 2020 he supervised the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations manga written by Ukyō Kodachi and illustrated by Mikio Ikemoto. In November 2020 it was announced that he had taken over as writer on the series, replacing Kodachi.

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.
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.
I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique. — © Masashi Kishimoto
I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.
Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.
Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.
When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.
There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up
For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)
...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?
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?
If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.
If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life. — © Masashi Kishimoto
If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
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!
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.
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.
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?
Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name! Gaara: I couldn't care less.
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
People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.
Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja.
Let his herald your end,and begone with the thundder clap.
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.
You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo
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?
To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.
It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.
A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.
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.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara
We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?
Give up trying to make me give up
The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.
Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
And so they fought. And so they laughed. Friends. And before they knew it, They were inseparable.
Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.
I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies.
Looks can be decieving — © Masashi Kishimoto
Looks can be decieving
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)
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.
A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara
Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth." Itachi: You've learnt a lot...Dr. Snakes
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
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.
When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.
I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!
I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do. — © Masashi Kishimoto
I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do.
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. But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us human.
I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.
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.
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.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!
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.
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
Gaara: Can Sasuke come out to Die? Kakashi: Not Now. Gaara:............. Gaara: How 'bout now?
n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.
When did you throw yourselves away?
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