Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Osamu Tezuka

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese writer Osamu Tezuka.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as "the God of Manga" , "the Father of Manga" , and "the Godfather of Manga" . Additionally, he is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during Tezuka's formative years. Though this phrase praises the quality of his early comic works for children and animations, it also blurs the significant influence of his later, more literary, gekiga works.

Love all creatures! Love everything that has life!
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.
Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive. — © Osamu Tezuka
Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.
A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.
Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.
Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.
I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.
What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.
Now we are living in the age of comics as air
By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!
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