Tokyo Ghoul Quotes

39 quotes from this anime

"You're wrong. It's not the world that's messed up"
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"After you've gobbled him down you'd be left alone to regret it while covered in blood and guts. That's the hunger of a ghoul. That's our destiny."
— Touka Kirishima · Tokyo Ghoul
"All we can do is live while losing things."
— Renji Yomo · Tokyo Ghoul
"As my fingers and toes re-grew like fingernails or hair over and over and over and over... and over again, every single time I got the feeling that I truly, truly truly was a monster."
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"Never trust anyone too much, remember the devil was once an angel."
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"As long as it's for the right cause, there's nothing wrong with playing dirty."
— Kureo Mado · Tokyo Ghoul
"Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?"
— Juuzou Suzuya · Tokyo Ghoul
"If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours, I think even they would commit many wrongs."
— Juuzou Suzuya · Tokyo Ghoul
"I led me by the hand, as if to fill the niches in the memories in my oozing brain fluid. Without even a destination, we kept walking. Disgusting clouds were floating in the sky. I already know what will happen to me the next time I wake up."
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"The bird fights it's way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born, must first destroy a world."
— Tokyo Ghoul · Tokyo Ghoul
"I know I haven't always made the right decisions up to now... Whether I was right, or whether I was wrong, may not even matter in the first place. However, running up against my sins like this-- all of the choices I've made up to this point-- today, being able to die for someone-- is something I'm glad for..."
— Irimi Kaya · Tokyo Ghoul
"There's no way someone who can't even protect himself can protect anyone else, is there?"
— Touka Kirishima · Tokyo Ghoul
"I was wrong. I wasn't eating ghouls. I'm the one who was being eaten."
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"Human relationships are chemical reactions. If you have a reaction then you can never return back to your previous state of being."
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"Whose fault is it that things ended up like this? Coincidence? An accident? Fate? There's no such thing as fate. It's simply a combination of one circumstance and the next. And who is it that creates those circumstances? Who is it? It's you."
— Rize Kamishiro · Tokyo Ghoul
"All suffering in the world is born from an individual's incompetence."
— Yakumo Oomori · Tokyo Ghoul
"We're always trying to justify our actions with ideals. But ideals cannot give grounds for killing another person. The act of taking a life will always be considered... evil."
— Yoshimura · Tokyo Ghoul
"You think something like that would hurt, after all I've been through?"
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life?"
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"Isn't it arrogant to put a price on whether life is "higher" or "lower", Kaneki? We are just bags of meat. The weak bow down and the strong devour them. Rather, if you compared them to all living things, it's humans who have shaved away the most lives. We are different than them."
— Shuu Tsukiyama · Tokyo Ghoul
"You don't need to blame yourself just because you've hurt someone, just like when you're walking you can't really blame yourself to crush some ants... that's what being stronger ones means."
— Shuu Tsukiyama · Tokyo Ghoul
"I'm not going to protect you by being your shield or armor, but I'll be the dagger hidden below your pillow."
— Shuu Tsukiyama · Tokyo Ghoul
"My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague...trying to dispel the building unease in my chest... Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood... Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I--understood exactly who I faced. The CCG's reaper. The undefeated ghoul investigator. A cold, vivid gaze. There, stood the God of Death. Why was it that I was seeing beauty in death rather than life? Strangely, I thought he was beautiful... Disoriented, I had failed to comprehend the scene before my eyes. It was not anything like flowers but a large amount of "Death". Had he done this alone?... It's a lie... Koma...Irimi...After all that... No matter how I tried to rouse my will to fight with hatred, more than sorrow, more than rage, the emotion that arose within me was despair. Because 'my turn' was next.""
— Kaneki Ken · Tokyo Ghoul
"...The act of taking is equally evil. We, from the moment of birth, continue to take. Food, connections, even fellow blood. Living to utmost. Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself. I am aware I am evil... And so are you all. Now, come kill me. And I shall do the same!"
— Yoshimura · Tokyo Ghoul

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