"If you don't see her, you won't fall in …" — Satou Tatsuhiro Quote

"I think I finally understand... As long as there's someone who'll grieve, it's wrong to want to die."

— Hidehito Nomura · Welcome to the N.H.K

"A drama has a progressive thought, an emotional climax and a resolution, but our lives aren't like that. All we get day after day, are a bunch of vague anxieties that are never really resolved."

— Kaoru Yamazaki · Welcome to the N.H.K

"People who neglect to make efforts or who don't take any actions at all are always the ones who dream that someday they will suddenly become wildly successful."

— Misaki Nakahara · Welcome to the N.H.K

"People like us aren't qualified to be involved in a dramatic incident such as a suicide. No matter how depressed you are or how much pain you're in, you have to return to your routine, daily life. Even if you don't come back, you'll just end up dying in vain. A dramatic death isn't befitting of us."

— Kaoru Yamazaki · Welcome to the N.H.K

"Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone"

— Satou Tatsuhiro · Welcome to the N.H.K

"Because of our broken instincts, we are in pain. We continue living in pain, because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we supposed to do? Should we abandon knowledge? Throw away reason? In any event, that wouldn't be possible. For better or for worse, we ate the fruit of knowledge long, long ago."

— Satou Tatsuhiro · Welcome to the N.H.K