"The Other Side of the Other Side of the …" — Gintoki Sakata Quote

"Whether I go or not, I'll die anyway. I have an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it going through my head down to my feet, and I know it exists within me. It lets me stand on my feet, it lets me walk forward without trembling. If I stop here, I feel like it would break... My soul will break."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Ironic, isn't it? How people without truly important things know about them more than those who have them."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"I don't have anything anymore, but if there's something on the floor, I'll pick it up."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"A prison, you say? You think you'll be free if you go to the world above? A girl like you can never be free no matter where you go. After all, we humans are apes put in a cage called Earth. There is no difference between the world above and the world below. The only difference is which is bigger or smaller. People who pout about how confining the cage is can never be happy. They live their lives only seeing the iron bars. A true lack of freedom is when you cage your soul."

— Gintama · Gintama

"*Gintoki stopped by a metal detector* Could it be that this can even detect the blade of the soul?"

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you'll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else."

— Obi Hajime · Gintama