Top 70 Masashi Kishimoto Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I never go back on my word! That’s my nindo, my ninja way!”

— Masashi Kishimoto

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2. “There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn’t let you give up.”

— Masashi Kishimoto

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3. “Naruto: BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!”

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4. “Give up trying to make me give up.”

— Masashi Kishimoto

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5. “When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”

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6. “It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.”

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7. “In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.”

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8. “If you don’t like the hand that fate’s dealt you, fight for a new one.”

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9. “Sometimes you must Hurt in order to Know, Fall in order to Grow, Lose in order to Gain because life’s greatest lessons are learned through Pain.”

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10. “What a drag.”

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11. “Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.”

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12. “To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.”

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13. “Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.”

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14. “The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It’s one of the never-ending cycles in life.”

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15. “A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.”

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16. “In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn’t that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?”

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17. “I’ve told you before. You shouldn’t judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.”

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18. “Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us humans.”

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19. “We don’t know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That’s what death is, don’t you think?”

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20. “People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”

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21. “And so they fought. And so they laughed. Friends. And before they knew it, They were inseparable.”

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22. “For awhile, I thought that was love. -Gaara.”

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23. “I won’t run away anymore... I won’t go back on my word... that is my ninja way!”

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24. “I don’t understand what’s going on, but i’ll just pretend that I do.”

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25. “You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.”

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26. “The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn’t it? I don’t know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.”

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27. “Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang.”

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28. “If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.”

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29. “That’s my Shinobi Way.”

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30. “Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.”

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31. “The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten.”

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32. “You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.”

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33. “Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions.”

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34. “Looks can be decieving.”

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35. “Shut up or I’ll kill you.”

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36. “Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?”

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37. “A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. – Gaara.”

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38. “Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.”

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39. “A scary but yet beautiful smile.”

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40. “A genius, huh? What does that mean? ‘Genius’? So I was not born with a whole lot of natural talent, not gifted like Neji... but I work hard and I never give up! That is my gift; that is my ninja way!”

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41. “It is not wise to judge others based on your own preconceptions and by their appearances.”

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42. “It’s nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him.”

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43. “I was raised on ramen and hard work!”

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44. “Those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called filth, but those who don’t care about their companions... are even lower than filth.”

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45. “Say, sis... Time is flowing slowly, but it’s flowing.”

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46. “When did you throw yourselves away?”

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47. “When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.”

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48. “Peace under an illusion is not true peace. It’s only meaningful if the real world manages to accomplish it.”

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49. “Just by living, people hurt others without even realizing it. So long as humanity exists, hate will also exist. There is no peace in this cursed world. War is just a crime paid for by the pain of the defeated...”

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50. “I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.”

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