Quotes Tokyo Ghoul (83 Phrases)

This article presents quotes from the popular anime series “Tokyo Ghoul”. These phrases show the themes that the series deals with, such as love, sacrifice, the struggle for survival, and many others. The quotes also showcase the different personalities and emotions of the main characters, which can be easily relate to and empathize with. In general, this article will appeal to both fans of the anime genre and just lovers of good quotes.

Kaneki Ken quotes

1. Do you really think that after everything I’ve been through, something like this would hurt me? –Ken  Kaneki
2. Sometimes you deal with ugly parts of yourself that you don’t want to see, but books can also tell you a lot about things you didn’t notice when you were just trying to survive somehow. –Ken  Kaneki
3. I want to be nice, but everyone annoys me. –Ken  Kaneki
4. I don’t mind taking the side of those I can’t see. I fight for those who are close to me. And it just so happens that most of them are demons. –Ken  Kaneki
5. I know you may not believe it, but I am human. And yet… I want to eat it so much that I can’t help it. But if I do that, I will cease to be human. –Ken  Kaneki
6. I beg you, don’t make me a murderer! –Ken  Kaneki
7. Better to be offended than to hurt others. Good people can only be satisfied with this. – Kaneki  Ken
8. I am the One-Eyed King. –Ken Kaneki
9. Furuta, I was a person who can be found anywhere. Someone who just loves to read. But on that fateful day with Rize, I was cut off from the human world. And everything began to change. My life was in danger. I was terribly tortured, I couldn’t get what I wanted, I even lost it. But I found a new place where I belonged. Allies. Friends. People I could call my teachers. The people I love. And even though I’ve made so many mistakes and hurt so many, I just can’t believe it was all for nothing. So even if she knew everything that was going to happen next, she would have gone to Reese that day. Everything was necessary for me. This world… This world is not bad. It’s just like that. And even if “in the end” everything does not lead to anything, I will try, as today, Furuta. –Ken Kaneki
10. I’m not the protagonist of a novel or anything like that. I’m just a college student who loves to read as you can find anywhere. But… if, for example, you wrote a story with me as the protagonist, it would certainly be… a tragedy. –Ken Kaneki
11. At the Gates of Death, I finally stumbled upon the twisted truth. Rize, hide, in the end, all this has always been in me. They were just an extension of me. The people I want to meet. What I want to be told. “Hide will definitely stop me.” As soon as I began to think that somewhere inside me, I myself began to desire it. desire to live.” –Ken  Kaneki
12. Fiction gives the reader the opportunity to get out of their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and shows you a world that is not the one you already know. And sometimes the story is not so different from yours, and it allows you to get closer to your own feelings. Therefore, when you close the book you just read and return to reality, all the pain and sadness that you could not put into words before is still there, on these pages. And that can be comforting. –Ken Kaneki
13. If, say, you wrote a story with me in the title role, it would certainly be a tragedy. No. In fact, they are all the same. He is the protagonist of his novel, and she is the protagonist of his film. All those who walk this earth are the protagonists of their own tragedies. Everyone steals, and everyone has something stolen. We can’t help ourselves. That’s who we are. Steal and be stolen. Put in jail and be in jail. Follow and you are being followed. Do and do. Affirm and deny over and over again. We fight endlessly to save ourselves from loss. Yet the people and places we love will one day be lost. We will all be forgotten. Life is sad. Empty. But despite the knowledge that one day we will be deprived, despite the knowledge that one day we will disappear, we continue to fight in miserable ways. We still want to be beautiful. And I think. “Which?” I choose. “This”. Always choose, always choose. Nothing more. Not less. –mine is mine
14. My deep wounds healed and there was the sweet taste of blood in my mouth. I kept walking, my goals were vague, trying to dispel the anxiety in my chest, as I entered the open area, I smelled rotten flowers, and here it is. –Ken  Kaneki
15. We must break the chain of pain. –Ken  Kaneki
16. Why are beautiful things more closely associated with death than with life? –Ken  Kaneki
17. I keep it all to myself because I prefer the pain to destroy me rather than others. –Ken  Kaneki
18. Never kick me when I fall, because when I get up… you’re screwed. –Ken  Kaneki
19. In this world, the strongest survive. The strong eat. Who is strong? I. I. -Ken  Kaneki
20. If he wrote a story with me in the title role, it would certainly be… a tragedy. –Ken  Kaneki
21. What’s wrong is not me, what’s wrong is the world! –Ken  Kaneki
22. Pain is your friend, pain is your ally. –Ken  Kaneki
23. Human relationships are chemical reactions. If you have a reaction, you will never be able to return to your previous state. – Kaneki  Ken
24. I will not forgive anyone who threatens the peace in my life. – Kaneki  Ken
25. You are not right. It is not the world that is destroyed; we are in it. Yes, some darkspawn take a path that leaves sadness behind, but like humans, we can choose a completely different path. We have a lot to learn, both your species and mine. We need to stop fighting and start talking. Because when it comes to the state of the world, you can’t point fingers at ghouls or humans. Blame everything. – Kaneki  Ken
26. Take my hand, as if to fill the memory niches in my cerebrospinal fluid. Without even thinking, we moved on. There were nasty clouds floating across the sky, I know this will happen to me the next time I wake up. –Ken  Kaneki
27. I’m tired of not being able to do anything. –Ken  Kaneki

Yoshimura quotes

28. What I cannot avenge is not miserable. The most terrible thing is that revenge takes possession of you, and you cannot live your life. –  Yoshimura
29. Just in case, I guess I’ll tell you my wish anyway. Kill the One-Eyed King.” – This is  Yoshimura.
30. I want you to save lonely people… and in the end… my son too. – Yoshimura
31. We always try to justify our actions with ideals. But ideals cannot give a reason to kill another person. The taking of life will always be considered…evil.” –  Yoshimura
32. You are one person who owns two worlds. – Yoshimura
33. Those who are right are ghouls. If no one steps forward, ghouls will continue to die for no reason. And this puppet world will keep on dancing. In itself, this is not so bad, but … the world is like an egg. To give birth to something, it is necessary to destroy the world before our eyes. – This is Yoshimura 
34. We should not regret because we cannot retaliate. The real reason to be sorry… is when you’re obsessed with revenge and can’t live your life. –  Yoshimura
35. Just because the beans are expensive doesn’t mean the coffee will be good. Nothing will happen if you cook it carelessly. But the opposite is also true. Even cheap beans can be delicious if carefully prepared to bring out their unique qualities. –  Yoshimura

Shu Tsukiyama quotes

36. You don’t have to blame yourself for hurting someone, just like when you’re walking you can’t blame yourself for crushing ants… that’s what it means to be stronger. — Shu  Tsukiyama
37. I will not protect you by being your shield or armor, but I will be the dagger hidden under your pillow. — Shu  Tsukiyama
38. Kaneki, isn’t it arrogant to put a price on whether life is “higher” or “lower”? We are nothing more than bags of meat. The weak bow down and the strong devour them. Rather, if we compare them with all living beings, it was people who claimed the most lives. We are different from them. — Shu  Tsukiyama
39. I will not protect you by being your shield or armor, but I will be the dagger hidden under your pillow. — Shu Tsukiyama
40. Give up, you say? I would never do it. My father… and servants… risked their lives to keep me alive… This body is no longer mine. Are you saying that I should just give up and stick around in the Snail until they kill me? I will fight to survive. Mr. Sasaki… I don’t know anything about you. — Shu  Tsukiyama
41. Kaneki from Anteiku, right? I am very interested in this scent. — Shu Tsukiyama

Touka Kirishima quotes

42. Although time has passed, although our bodies have changed, although I completely forgot … As long as I get home, everything will be fine. – Touka  Kirishima
43. When you swallow it, you will only regret it when you are covered in blood and gore. This is the ghoul’s hunger, this is our destiny. – Touka  Kirishima
44. Is everything “terrible”? Do not make me laugh. It has been terrible for me ever since I was born. – Touka  Kirishima
45. After you swallow it, you will be left alone to mourn for it, covered in blood and gore. It’s a ghoul’s hunger. This is our destiny. – Touka  Kirishima
46. I’m not looking for your sympathy. I feel sympathy for you. It must be terrible. Trapped in his past, unable to live in the present… –  Touka Kirishima

Phrases of other Tokyo Ghoul characters

47. The events that take place in this world are a continuous series of insignificant things, and in this many pieces of the puzzle there is always a piece that leads to the truth. – Kisho Arima
48. People suck. They follow stupid laws, have an idiotic love for groups, and, convinced of their rightness, group those whom they have offended and expel them. But though they are weak, some care for others; they can be fragile, but they show love for people important to them; they may not have claws or fangs, but they will fight to protect someone. Do demons do it? Me?” – Tohka  Kirishima
49. 645 times. 645 times I could mortally wound you. 645. 645 times I decided not to. It takes two seconds to kill you. Your eyes are the eyes of a dead man. The dead cannot stop me. –  Kisho Arima
50. You makes me laugh. Are you trying to make yourself a model of justice? Or maybe the main character? Associated special class… You are the only one to blame for the collapse of this world. You understand?! You’ve seen Tokyo City, right?! How do you see it?! How do you see it?! The streets are choking with the stench of the dead… human bodies that have fallen at your hands! Not only people. When it suited them, they also took the lives of ghouls! You preach lofty and powerful ideals, but in reality you are just a superficial narcissist! And thanks to this lack of yours, I got more pleasure than I should! At the Aogiri hideout, when you were trying to protect yourself from an extremely powerful enemy… when you were trying to protect that coffee shop in the 20th district… when you were trying to protect your fake family as Haise Sasaki… when you were trying to protect the ghoul nation like the One-Eyed King… Every time you failed! God, that was truly an exciting sight! No matter how you writhe, there are things in this world that you simply cannot change! And yes, today you will fall too. Everything will be in vain. –Kitimura Washu
51. Ironic, right? So that we, who have been living in the name of justice all this time, turn into these bodies … –  Seido Takizawa.
52. Do you suddenly forget that you are a monster and become happy when you are around these people? – Ayato Kirishima
53. I already knew this man!… Who cares, let’s go home now. – Hideyoshi Nagachika
54. You know, when I grow up… I want to be an explorer just like you! – Cookie Urie
55. Well… Men say this and that, but… If you put a pair of big tits in their face, they’ll just shut up. – Saiko Yonebayashi
56. Amon Kotaro I… I hate you more. – Akira Mado
57. As the long, hard life of torture continued, I desperately tried to find a way to escape the pain… Desperately indeed. I’m not a ghoul named Yamori. I am an investigator who uses torture, ”I convinced myself. When he believed in this… the most mysterious thing was that it was not clear: is he hurting or is he hurting? As if the enemy and I had become one person, I felt a strange sense of unity. And then one day, in a fraction of a second, our roles actually switched places. Although it was only an hour, I felt that I had truly become a man. I will never forget this emotion. – Yakumo Omori (Jason)
58. This world is wrong. –Kotaro Amon
59. Mother. All you gave me is scars. That’s the only thing I remember… No matter what the people around me say, I… don’t hold a grudge against you or anything like that. It’s just… my job. —  Juuzou Suzuya
60. Gentlemen, the One-Eyed King… that’s not me. – This is Yoshimura.
61. For food and anger, I also killed many people! – Tohka Kirishima
62. Because I love him and I don’t need another reason. He is he. – Hideyoshi  Nagachika
63. Even though time has passed, even though our bodies have changed, even though I completely forgot … As long as I get home, everything will be fine. – Touka Kirishima
64. I… always… hated him. I hated myself for stealing from others… Finally… I was able to leave something behind… –  Kisho Arima
65. Ah, that’s the main thing. Without life at stake, games are uninteresting. Protecting anything and everything is very boring. Besides, each of us is just a pawn on a big board. And now… let’s play house.” – Kichimura
66. How about we play cook? I’ll be the cook and you’ll be the pig. —  Juuzou Suzuya

A few more phrases from the anime Tokyo Ghoul for reflection

• “Hatred, anger… I understand what it’s like to live supported only by these emotions. When they finally dissolve, it seems that you remain empty. I… after I became this, I also had to live with this emptiness. I thought that all the time I spent as a researcher was wasted. Like the coming future… But… Not everything has completely disappeared. If “emptiness” is another feeling, then it also exists… Contemplation of this emptiness is painful. It’s complicated. But if you can meet him face to face without hesitation, he will eventually give you the answer you are looking for… How do you want to live your life? –Kotaro  Amon
• “In the end, everything will come to naught. I have known since childhood. Live, die, create, consume. Useless, pointless, all useless. You, your wife, your son, your friends and your enemies. They will all die anyway. All this will disappear, one day. This world is just a toy chest. You can play with it as long as you can, but when the time comes it will all be over. The chest is locked and cannot be reopened.” – Kichimura  Washu
• “Amon. You always shone so bright. Bright enough to dazzle. Your righteousness has been nothing but torture to me. But I understood. I can’t say good things about justice like you. I will not renounce the crimes I have committed. Seido Takizawa died in this prison. I can no longer walk the straight and narrow path. If I could, I would like to go back in time. Me too… I want to be like you… but now that that will never happen… I’m just a stray gun. Lost bullet. Slightly different from a time bomb. Only one. That’s all. “It’s above all.” Something like that. The only thing that holds everything else in place. And I … will do. — Seido  Takizawa
• “We bring their death and bring peace to all of us! And these vile Clowns mixed normal citizens into their ranks, using them as meat shields! Such a reprehensible and stupid plan! From now on, the CCG will direct all its forces to the destruction of every single one… Our goal is the “complete cleansing of Tokyo”!!! Complete destruction of all ghouls!!! Please lend me your strength… It’s time to strike back.” – Kichimura  Washu
• Dear mother and father, Long ago, there was a period when mother began to feel insecure after Sato-obasan, who lived next door, was killed by a demon. Seeing this, I felt that I wanted to protect Mother and made the decision to become a ghoul investigator. Even now, his determination is strong. I am very proud of this job, in which I have to risk my life for the benefit of other people. This time I was assigned to a large suppression operation. If I don’t come back, please don’t be upset. As always (blurry). The dishes I could eat were (blurred) delicious. (Blurred) Seins and Rocky. I DON’T WANT TO DIE.” — Seido  Takizawa
• “I knew it. I knew it, but I ignored it all this time. This world is perverted… and among those who pervert it… among those who pervert it was me.” –Kotaro Amon
• “Try not to hate me too much, okay? — Juuzou Suzuya
• “Mom! Dad! I’m sorry! I couldn’t avoid it! I couldn’t avoid it!” — Seido  Takizawa
• “To do what you like is the right of the strong.” – Yakumo  Omori (Jason)
• “Saiko doesn’t want anyone to die anymore.” – Saiko  Yonebayashi
• Even if we die or not, it doesn’t really matter. – Juuzou  Suyuza
• What we know as our daily lives can fall apart in an instant. When everything ends, it always happens in the blink of an eye. –  Nishiki_
• Become the protagonist of your life. – Hideyoshi  Nagachika
• When you face the enemy, even if your hands are shaking, fight. — Kureo  Mado
• All the suffering in the world is born out of the incompetence of the individual. – Yakumo  Oomori
• All shortcomings in this world come from a lack of human ability. – Rize  Kamishiro
• There are times when you have to protect something even at the cost of something else. – Rize  Kamishiro