Top 50 Keigo Higashino Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone’s saviour.”

— Keigo Higashino

2. “Believe me. No matter how bad things are today, they’ll be far better tomorrow. – Namiya General Store.”

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3. “A person’s sadness didn’t always take a form that others could see.”

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4. “Curiosity is the fuel that powers the engine of human advancement.”

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5. “Be a fighter. Give it everything you’ve got. Even a losing battle is worth fighting. Go out and make your mark.”

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6. “Murder isn’t the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.”

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7. “It’s okay if you don’t like science,” he said, “but that doesn’t mean you can just ignore things you don’t understand. It’ll come back to haunt you.”

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8. “I love you more than anything else in this world. That’s why your words were like a knife stabbing me in the heart. That’s why you have to die, too.”

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9. “You know how the sun rises and sets at a certain time each day? In the same way, all of our lives have a day and night. But it’s not set like it is with the sun. Some people walk forever in the sunlight, and some people have to walk through the darkest night their whole lives. When people talk about being afraid, what they’re afraid of is that their sun will set. That the light they love will fade.”

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10. “Tunnel vision is no way to make it as a researcher. Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”

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11. “Apparently, it won’t do just to tell the reader what a particular character is like. The author needs to show their habits or their words and let the reader form an image on their own.”

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12. “The world is full of mysteries. And the joy of uncovering even the slightest mystery is incomparable to any other joy you will ever know.”

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13. “Aku tahu di dunia ini kadang kita harus menerima fakta yang tidak ingin kita percayai.”

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14. “Okay – the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That’s what I wanted to tell you.”

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15. “The relationship between teacher and student is based on illusion. The teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What’s important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we’re doing is playing at education.”

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16. “People who live with their head in the clouds deserve to hit the ground every once in a while.”

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17. “When you wander in the dark too long, you start to see things that aren’t really there.”

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18. “Sometimes it’s as important to prove there is no answer to a question as it is to answer it.”

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19. “Everyone has secrets. And everyone has the right to keep them. Even if they’re dead.”

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20. “Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?”

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21. “It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.”

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22. “It didn’t bother me. It excited my curiosity. And I believe there is no greater sin than to leave one’s curiosity unsatisfied.”

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23. “If they could redirect the energy they’d spent on trying to find fault with the other side and put it toward finding a new direction that worked for everyone, they could all benefit.”

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24. “The sun had set. Night had come to the city. How easy it would be if everything went dark, and the world ended right here, right now. What a relief it would be.”

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25. “He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them.”

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26. “Tidak ada alasan tertentu yang membuat orang-orang saling menjauh. Tidak, meskipun mereka mengatakan itu terjadi karena sudah tidak ada kecocokan, bisa jadi itu hanya alasan yang mengada-ada. Mengapa? Karena jika mereka masih satu hati, seharusnya salah seorang dari mereka berusaha memperbaiki ketika mulai ada tanda-tanda perpisahan akan terjadi.”

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27. “It’s not a calculation. It’s a smart woman’s instinct for self defense.”

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28. “Only by respecting the other side’s work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.”

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29. “It excited my curiosity. And I believe there is no greater sin than to leave one’s curiosity unsatisfied. Curiosity is a fuel that powers the engine of human advancement.”

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30. “If there’s something you’re not going to be able to do, you should just be honest and admit it.”

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31. “Watch the shrimp and eventually you’ll find the goby, that was his belief.”

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32. “Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”

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33. “Grownups were always breaking promises as if it didn’t matter at all.”

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34. “Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who’d been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them from the confines of a mortal existence, allowing them to perceive the great truths of the universe. At the same time, it meant they had one foot in forbidden territory. They straddled the line between sanity and madness.”

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35. “Pada era manapun, keberadaan ilmuan selalu dianggap mencurigakan oleh orang lain.”

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36. “Murder is murder. Everything else is just details.”

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37. “A feeling rose inside him, making him queasy, as though an elaborate formula he’d thought was perfect was now giving false results because of an unpredictable variable.”

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38. “Do you know what accounts for most research delays? Interruptions that have nothing to do with the research whatsoever.”

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39. “I want you to value life. Yours and others. More than you ever have before.”

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40. “That’s what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.”

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41. “You may be an expert in environmental protection policy, but when it comes to science, you’re an amateur. How much do you actually know about undersea resource development? If you truly want to come up with a solution that allows both, you’ll need to have the same amount of knowledge and experience with both. It’s arrogant to think that knowing only one is sufficient. Only by respecting the other side’s work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.”

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42. “I hear you. Still, I can’t imagine it’s all that pleasant having a murder suspect in the neighborhood.” “It wasn’t me she murdered, so I don’t see how it’s any of my business.”

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43. “It would destroy the very meaning of a family unit if everyone with their separate ways over fleeting feelings of anger or impatience.”

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44. “People who’ve been traumatized by a crime are victims, too. Finding ways to comfort them is also part of my job.”

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45. “There’s something I’ve learned from years of reading people’s letters. In most cases, they already have an answer to their problem. They’re asking for advice because they want to see if other people think they’re making the right decision. That’s why a lot of people send me a response after reading my advice. Maybe they had a different solution in mind.”

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46. “You can’t ignore someone who speaks to you from the heart.”

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47. “The Imperial University library was a substantial three-story building. When Kusanagi was a student, he had only visited it two or three times at most. He guessed that additions had been built since he’d left, but he couldn’t exactly remember what the place had looked like before. The entire edifice could have been rebuilt and he wouldn’t have known the difference.”

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48. “Bagi para penulis, karya adalah belahan jiwa mereka. Atau dalam bahasa yang lebih sederhana, mereka menganggap karya mereka sudah seperti anak sendiri. Penulis mencintai karya yang dilahirkannya layaknya para orangtua di dunia yang mencintai anak-anak mereka.”

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49. “The modest wrinkles and the slackness of her skin were a matter of course. Proof she’d seized the reins in life. Nothing to be ashamed of.”

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50. “Setelah sekian lama membaca surat permintaan konsultasi, ada satu hal yang kupahami. Dalam berbagai kasus, sebenarnya si pengirim surat sudah menemukan jawabannya. Mereka berkonsultasi hanya demi memastikan bahwa orang lain juga membenarkan keputusan mereka.”

— Keigo Higashino