Top 40 Hiro Mashima Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The worst kind of pain is when you’re smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”

— Hiro Mashima

2. “Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you.”

— Hiro Mashima

3. “You have three choices, you can give up, give in or give it your all.”

— Hiro Mashima

4. “The moment you think of giving up, think of the reason why you held on so long.”

— Hiro Mashima

5. “I won’t give up, I will fight til the bitter end, cause there’s no way I will back down after what you did to my friends. They are what made me the person I am today, that’s why I’ll keep fighting... For my friends!”

— Hiro Mashima

6. “Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail.”

— Hiro Mashima

7. “Do fairies have tails? More than that, do fairies even exist? Nobody knows for sure. So this guild is like them, an eternal mystery, an eternal adventure.”

— Hiro Mashima

8. “If you run out of strength today, borrow some from tomorrow.”

— Hiro Mashima

9. “We’d rather die than abandon our comrade!!!”

— Hiro Mashima

10. “A flower can’t choose the place where it blooms, and a child can’t choose the parents she’s born to.”

— Hiro Mashima

11. “I will never give up... I will never give up! As long I’m still breathing in this world... As long I’m still standing, I will never give up!!!”

— Hiro Mashima

12. “Don’t judge me unless you have looked through my eyes, experienced what I went through and cried as many tears as me. Until then back-off, cause you have no idea.”

— Hiro Mashima

13. “All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don’t care if I’m weaker than everyone in the world.”

— Hiro Mashima

14. “Anime is not the end. Don’t stop believing.”

— Hiro Mashima

15. “Being alive is sign of strength!”

— Hiro Mashima

16. “Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends for as long as you live.”

— Hiro Mashima

18. “If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don’t want it.”

— Hiro Mashima

19. “If you’re a guild, treat your comrades right. That’s all I wanted to say.”

— Hiro Mashima

20. “It’s not a crime! Caring about your friends is not a crime!”

— Hiro Mashima

21. “You Don’t Die for your Friends, You live for them.”

— Hiro Mashima

22. “What’s the point of magic to begin with... if I can’t use it to protect my friends?”

— Hiro Mashima

23. “This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn’t keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes.”

— Hiro Mashima

24. “But what’s important isn’t the Magic, it’s the heart of the wielder who uses it.”

— Hiro Mashima

25. “This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!”

— Hiro Mashima

26. “Bury the pain of losing your loved ones... into the arms of your friends.”

— Hiro Mashima

27. “Speak of the future, and that shall become your will to live!”

— Hiro Mashima

28. “It is the role of a parent to stand in front of their children, and protect them even if their legs were to give out at any moment – Master Makarov.”

— Hiro Mashima

29. “Care too little, you lose them. Care too much, you get hurt.”

— Hiro Mashima

30. “Come on, Jellal! You can’t let yourself get taken away from you! For Erza’s sake! So come here! We’ll be with you too! We’re on the same team, right?! Jellal!”

— Hiro Mashima

31. “The world doesn’t need any more sadness than it’s already got.”

— Hiro Mashima

32. “When we’re all alone, it might be to frightening to bear... but we’re all right beside each other. We’ve got our friends close by! Now, there’s nothing to fear! Because we’re not alone!!!”

— Hiro Mashima

33. “Whoever looks down upon our guild, I’ll shut him up!!! I will show the power of Fairy Tail!!!”

— Hiro Mashima

34. “Never look at your life as something insignificant. Never forget those friends of yours that you loved.”

— Hiro Mashima

35. “Sorry, but it doesn’t matter if you’re a woman or even a child... I don’t go easy on anybody who hurts my nakama.”

— Hiro Mashima

36. “Someone who could shed tears for their friends... could never be rejected from Fairy Tail!”

— Hiro Mashima

37. “Why do you find it easy to kill? These are lives dammit!”

— Hiro Mashima

38. “Feelings are connection. They surpass time, and find their way back to the people you love.”

— Hiro Mashima

39. “Stellar Spirits are not “Shields”.”

— Hiro Mashima

40. “If you understood everything in the mind of an author then reading his books would be no fun at all.”

— Hiro Mashima