Gintama Quotes

"Planets are just places for people to stand on. Planets are just rocks. It takes people to make it a world. You can have as many "Earths" as you want. I only care about what's inside."

— Sakamoto Tatsuma · Gintama

"Goodbyes are only one side of the coin. You can't say goodbye until you've said hello."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"No matter how colossal a power you obtain, no matter how gigantic an army you bring with you, I ain't scared. While you've abandoned a hundred, I've connected with a thousand. While you've destroyed a thousand, I've been helped by ten thousand. So what's an army of a few thousand? We have protected everything as just three people. We're the Yorozuya."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"I choose my own battlefields. Not by my blood, but by my heart! I stand on the battlefield to protect what's important to me. And if anyone stands in my way, I don't care if it's one of my kind, my brother or anyone else… I'll crush them all!"

— Kagura · Gintama

"Anime - it's not something that can be thought of in a hall for conferences. It is made out of strange juices current from the brain of animators."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"A farewell is like the other side of a coin. It will only happen when there is an encounter. Rather than dreading the day we have to part, shouldn't we be happy that we had the chance to meet today instead?"

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Life is like a mountain - you can say you've reached the top, but only after climbing back down."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"It's as if you are stuck in some predetermined program, following some predetermined script. If you really want to live in reality, then fight against it. Break through destiny with your own hands, and build your own reality!"

— Sarutobi Ayame · Gintama

"There is no need for any proof. There is no need to create any. We just have to live every second to the fullest, and the traces of the path we lived will burn into the ground. That will serve as proof of our existence."

— Hijikata Toushirou · Gintama

"Change is never easy in this world. I can't even change one friend, let alone a whole country."

— Kotarō Katsura · Gintama

"The only people who say that money doesn't matter in this world are the ones with lots of it."

— Takasugi Shinsuke · Gintama

"No matter how beautiful a person may be, they will still age and ultimately - die. But even so, even if appearances change, don't you believe that we have, in us, things that don't change? Even as our bodies crumble, even as the months and years take their toll... don't you believe that we all have something that time can't spoil? Even if you cover us with wrinkles, we won't lose to you. That's because we know what beauty truly is."

— Shimura Tae · Gintama

"People need to live their life with a clear conscience. When you want to walk on a straight path, somehow you get yourself stained with mud. However, as long as we never give up, one day the mud on you will dry up and fall off."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Even if you can't move anymore, or your back gets bent out of shape, it doesn't matter! What matters is what's inside! Not what someone looks like, dammit!"

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Life is basically like a soap bubble. It rides on the wind, flying here and there... and before you realize it - pop! It's gone. When it's about to disappear, you think that you could've flown a little higher. But by the time, it's already too late."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can't just go by somebody else's rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you'll just become a puppet that can't make decisions on it's own. You have to live by your rules."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"If we're unable to climb down the mountain, then we won't know whether there's another mountain to climb up."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Manga endings might always end the same. However, if it comes to life. Neither you or I are mere readers. We are writers. We can change the ending."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"If you run into a wall and pretend it doesn't exist, you'll never make progress. The wall will never change, so you're the one who has to change."

— Hijikata Toushirou · Gintama

"So what if the government collapses or the country is ruined? I'm not civic-minded! All I want to do is stand tall and live on until the day I collapse and die!"

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"No matter how hard you blow, you can never extinguish our fire. As long as a single flare remains, the others can be relit."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"In this world, there are things you have to protect even if your hands get stained with blood."

— Okita Sougo · Gintama

"Nobody can take anybody's place. There isn't a person in this world that could take your place. It doesn't matter if you were based on me or have the same face."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama