Quotes from Tokyo Ghoul

There's no way someone who can't even protect himself can protect anyone else, is there?

It's better to be hurt than to hurt others. Nice people can be happy with just that.

I can neither live with you. Nor without you.

Anyone who tries to take my friends from me will get no mercy.

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

Human relationships are chemical reactions. If you have a reaction then you can never return back to your previous state of being.

The pain you feel today will be the strength you'll have tomorrow.

The bird fights it's way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born, must first destroy a world.

There are times when you have to give up on one thing to preserve the other.

Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?

Pain and me aren't on speaking terms. It's those who've tamed their weakness that win in battle.

As long as you live there are more chances. It's game over when you die.

You only need a strong will and a clear purpose.

As long as it's for the right cause, there's nothing wrong with playing dirty.

Whose fault is it that things ended up like this? Coincidence? An accident? Fate? There's no such thing as fate. It's simply a combination of one circumstance and the next. And who is it that creates those circumstances? Who is it? It's you.

Books are nice, aren't they? With just one sentence you can get lost in all sorts of dreams. The way I think of it, literature allows the reader's consciousness to deeply relish the author and be closer to him. And so, we freely walk around the world of the story from the yarn spinner's point of view. It's only when you immerse yourself in the world of a book that you are able to forget just who you are.

Isn't it arrogant to put a price on whether life is "higher" or "lower", Kaneki? We are just bags of meat. The weak bow down and the strong devour them. Rather, if you compared them to all living things, it's humans who have shaved away the most lives. We are different than them.

We need to have a mask that we never take off.

It's not because we can't take vengeance that we should feel sorry. The real reason to feel sorry is when one is hung up on revenge and can't live their own life.

We're always trying to justify our actions with ideals. But ideals cannot give grounds for killing another person. The act of taking a life will always be considered evil.

The act of taking is equally evil. We, from the moment of birth, continue to take. Food, connections, even fellow blood. Living to utmost. Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself. I am aware I am evil. And so are you all. Now, come kill me. And I shall do the same.

All suffering in the world is born from an individual's incompetence.

When you're in front of the enemy, even if your hands are trembling – fight!

If you were to write a story with me in the lead role, it would certainly be a tragedy.

Doing what one likes is the right of the powerful.

I'm not going to protect you by being your shield or armour, but I'll be the dagger hidden below your pillow.

Sometimes you're confronted with the ugly parts of yourself that you don't want to see, but books can also tell you a lot about the things you didn't notice when you're just trying to get through somehow.

All of the disadvantages in this world stems from a person's lack of ability.

If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours, I think even they would commit many wrongs.

It's not the world that's messed up; it's those of us in it. Yes, some ghouls walk a path that leaves sorrow in their wake, but just like humans, we can choose a different path altogether. We have a lot to learn, both your kind and mine. We need to stop fighting, and start talking. Because when it comes to the state of the world, you can't point your finger at ghouls or humans. We're all to blame.

Never trust anyone too much. Remember the devil was once an angel.

Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It means they're human.

I don't want someone to see the good in me. I want someone who sees the bad, and still wants me.

What's wrong isn't me, what's wrong is the world.

You think that after all I've been through, something like that would hurt?