"Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, …" — Satou Tatsuhiro Quote

"If you don't see her, you won't fall in love. If you don't fall in love, you won't get hurt."

— Satou Tatsuhiro · 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

"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

"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

"Question: Why can one keep living as a hikikomori? Answer: Because one's food clothing and shelter are assured. It's because one is permitted a lukewarm bare minimum of a life that one can keep living as a hikikomori indefinitely. Being able to live as a hikikomori was in itself very much a luxury. Without the assurance of food clothing and shelter unless you're prepared to die there's no other way but to work."

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

"Feelings of romantic love are, in the end, just some chemical reaction. Under the right conditions, they occur no matter who the other person is."

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