Top 50 Wataru Watari Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A misunderstanding is a misunderstanding. It’s not the truth.”

— Wataru Watari

2. “If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie.”

— Wataru Watari

3. “Trying to not hurt others is something you can’t do. People are creatures who hurt others just by existing even if they’re not aware of it. Whether you’re living or dying. you’ll always be hurting someone. Once you’re involved, you’ll hurt someone, and even by not being involved, you might be hurting someone else as well...”

— Wataru Watari

4. “An experienced loner does not fall for the same trick twice.”

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5. “The institution known as “school” isn’t just a facility for doing classwork. It’s essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put together in a little diorama. Bully exists in schools because war and conflict exist in the world, and school castes reflect our stratified, hierarchical society. Living in a democracy, the tyranny of the majority naturally applies at school, too. The majority – that is to say, the people with the most friends – are superior.”

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6. “One girl to send her to the guillotine, one to cut the rope, and one to eagerly await the result.”

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7. “In this world, the pursuit of dreams leads to a life so painful and frustrating the mere thought of it is enough to merit a sigh.”

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8. “I’ve stopped bothering getting my hopes up and watching them die when all of it’s just in my head. I expect nothing from the start, I expect nothing in the middle, and I expect nothing up until the end.”

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9. “Nothing is less trustworthy than a woman’s tears.”

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10. “How rude could you get? She was treating a boy she’d only just met as an inferior being. The only other person I can think of who does that is a Saiyan prince.”

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11. “Equality in happiness is, in the first place, impossible.”

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12. “It was a rather cute reaction, but as I wasn’t a part of any of that, I didn’t give a damn.”

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13. “Monday. Given that it means “day of the moon,” you’d think there’d be more butts involved.”

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14. “Kids who don’t like writing about books often don’t enjoy reading them in the first place, and kids who hate reading inevitably end up being terrible writers.”

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15. “That’s just your persecution complex talking. Maybe you feel like I’m looking down on you because you’re simply conscious of your own inferiority?”

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16. “Even if you said something, there would still be things untold, and there were things that would break just from saying it.”

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17. “He was so cute when he was embarrassed that it was embarrassing me.”

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18. “A friendship where you’re always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn’t friendship at all.”

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19. “Now the situation could be resolved, and we could put this behind us – both the awkward misunderstandings and the misguided attempts at self-preservation. Though both of those would probably happen in the future anyway.”

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20. “When you tell someone to dress for unhindered movement, going naked seems like the best option to me.”

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21. “Forcing yourself to like something you don’t like brings sorrow. – Hikigaya Hachiman.”

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22. “She’s not tsundere. She’s just an unpleasant woman.”

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23. “If you want to protect your pride, you don’t need people to like you!”

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24. “What the hell? Die in a fire, youth. Die in a fire.”

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25. “Her wave was quite cheerful. But I didn’t really want to see her again, if possible.”

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26. “Saturday is the mightiest day of the week. It’s unshakably, overwhelmingly superior. Not only is it a day off of school, the following day is also a day off, like some kind of Super Saiyan bargain sale.”

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27. “You really are something else. How you try to look beyond what a person says and wehat a person does is something i’m really quite fond of, you know.”

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28. “If you want to make friends, you have to be prepared to sacrifice something.”

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29. “Therefore, the strongest person is someone with no vulnerabilities, nothing to hold dear, and no connections with others. In other words, me.”

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30. “Once you’ve seen something that’s got nothing to do with you, you can’t claim ignorance. But you’re still powerless. So at the very least, you want to let yourself feel pity and leave it at that. Those emotions are beautiful and noble, but they’re also a cruel and ugly excuse. It’s nothing more than an extension of the deceitful youth ideology that I loathe so much.”

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31. “In other words she was good at adjusting herself to other people... But tat could also mean she simply lacked the courage to be herself if it meant she had to risk ending up all alone.”

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32. “I guess I’m nothing but a rude and brash fool.”

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33. “Cultivating a proper internal standard of judgment is a good thing.”

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34. “I don’t trust any form of kindness so filled with deceit and so delighted in its own self-sacrifice.”

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35. “And that was why she got it. She understood those feelings of guilt. Yuigahama’s kindness was not blind benevolence. Her compassion was born of her awareness of the repulsive, ugly, and cowardly nature of humanity, and she nevertheless reached out without averting her eyes.”

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36. “Are you a terrorist? Or just an idiot?”

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37. “Maybe talking like they do – like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth – is what being friends is. There’s no way I would do that; I’d burst into laughter halfway.”

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38. “Was this really friendship? I have my doubts.”

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39. “Yuigahama-san, what you said earlier is incorrect. In fact, studying is the act of finding your own meaning. Because of that, different people might have different reasons for studying, but that is no reason to deny the entire purpose of studying.”

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40. “What I’ve been trying to say is that measuring a person’s worth solely by their exam scores and their ranking is foolish.”

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41. “A loner, by nature, burdens no one with their existence. By avoiding entanglements with others, they cause no harm. We are extremely ecologically friendly, clean, and environmentally aware creatures.”

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42. “I wonder why I thought the only one who would be lonely is the person who leaves, even though the people left behind would surely feel the same.”

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43. “Totsuka was just so nice, it made me want to decide on our children’s names together.”

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44. “She was quit a handsome man, my sister.”

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45. “Because cooking is a vital skill for a househusband.”

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46. “Sensitivity to the sound of one’s name is a special gift of loners. Because the loner does not often hear his name, he reacts dramatically in the rare event the word is uttered. Source: me.”

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47. “Frankly, if her face wasn’t so cute, I would most certainly have been punching it.”

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48. “When she greets you in the morning, that’s just common politeness. When she drops her handkerchief in front of you, that’s carelessness. And when a girl at your part-time job gives you her e-mail address, it’s because she wants you to cover her shift. I don’t believe in coincidence, fate, or destiny. All you can believe in are company orders.”

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49. “I wonder why the normies get so touchy-feely.”

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50. “In other words, paradoxically, loners are the truth philanthropists. Loving nothing is equivalent to loving everything. Damn, it’s only a matter of time before they dub me Mother Hikigaya.”

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