Quotes from Kentaro Miura

Among thousands of comrades and ten thousand enemies, only you... only you made me forget my dream

You're going to be all right. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this. Doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again… soon.' – Guts

Dreams. Win or lose...I'm sure you could spend your whole life chasing one.

Maybe I'm once again.../ ...Tryin' to throw away something.../ ...Irreplaceable that I'll never have again?/ To be honest.../ ...As long as I can feel warm.../ ...Isn't that good enough?/ Am I trying to let go.../ ...Of an irreplaceable today for some vague tomorrow I might never find... If it even exists...?/ Even without some big, exaggerated dream.../ ...People go on living.

I don't want what another man can give me. If he grants me anything, then it's his to give and not my own." – Guts

I think I'll try crying and shouting and biting my way through. Maybe I can change something.

If you spend too much time focused on the dead or broken, you'll find death perched on your shoulder...

Struggle. Keep struggling and struggling until the end of ends, then struggle some more. There's no fighting just to die.

People are shallow things. If anyone has even a bit more than they do, they're jealous, and if one has less, they look down on her.

Whatever different words you use to express [your scriptures].../ The mantras chanted may differ, but are not souls in want of salvation all the same?/ To divide and oppress people because of those differences is folly.

A dream… it's something you do for yourself, not for others

It was like being a sheep wandering into a pack of wolves./ A unilateral... fear of the unknown.

You're going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again...soon.

It's your life. Do what you want with it.

This place is a drift… Where the dead cling to the living… Drowning in jealousy and yearning. A garbage heap of losers. You said you don't care where. Well what you see is what you get. This is your Eden. There is no paradise for you to escape to. What you'll find… What's there… Is just… A battlefield.

I'm scared!!/ But it means I want to live!!

There's no paradise for you to escape to."-Guts,Lost Children Arc

then the suffering and fear of the living trying to escape that death. the deceit-filled system established to conceal that chaos. the people caught between the order of the crooked system and death. the bizarre festivals where with their own hands they gave shape to the shapeless fear they wished to escape.

If you desire one thing for so long, it's a given that you'll miss other things along the way. That's how it is… that's life.

Since that day I worried I'd been wandering the night. But I had forgotten that this is a world, upon which the sun does rise.

I was dreaming. On nights of the full moon I'd become a small child and find myself embraced by nostalgic warmth. But when I wake from the dream all that remains is a faint sense of loneliness. That, too, soon fades away. Along with a single tear like morning dew.

I cried out.../ ...A cry like both a baby's first and a dying man's last.../ ...in a voiceless voice.

Hate is a place where a man, who can't stand sadness, goes.

Sadness is a dagger that's been sharpened to strike at your heart. As days pass, it only gets sharper and sharper.