Kubo Quotes & Sayings

That's right ... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted. — Tite Kubo

It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one — Ryohgo Narita

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And ... if you can, die smiling.
(Isshin Kurosaki) — Tite Kubo

Don't use such strong words. It'll only make you look weak. — Tite Kubo

You are so, even when falling." (Byakuya Kuchiki) — Tite Kubo

We fear that which we cannot see. — Tite Kubo

I've decided. I'm going to become a Shinigami. Become a Shinigami and change things. So that they'll end ... without Rangiku having to cry. — Tite Kubo

Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.
~Shuhei Hisagi — Tite Kubo

My innocence is a dying flower — Tite Kubo

Everything in this world exists to wear you down. — Tite Kubo

I am calm. That's why I can fight you!~Uryu Ishida — Tite Kubo

No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on ... I will be sitting on it. — Tite Kubo

Taking on the afterlife one soul at a time. — Tite Kubo

Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red — Tite Kubo

Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward ... — Tite Kubo

I can see! So this is the sky! So this is blood! So this is the world! So this is what you look like, Komamura. You are uglier than I thought. -Kaname Tousen (I'm sorry to say but this quote had me laughing so much XD) — Tite Kubo

BE QUIET!! ... What do you want ... ? I was in the middle of saying something nice ... — Tite Kubo

I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty. -Kuchiki Rukia — Tite Kubo

Ichigo: You got that? Huh?! I'm the rescuer, so you just SHUT UP!!
Rukia: Wha
wha'd you say? A rescuer isn't supposed to ignore the rescuee!
Ichigo: Yeah? And what kind of rescuee complains about the rescue!? Why don't you go sit in a corner and tremble in fear and cry out "Save me! Save me!" like you're supposed to?!
Rukia: I do not need saving, and I do NOT tremble! — Tite Kubo

What's up, Hachi?" "Someone ... Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an original technique I developed after I became a visored. It can't be broken by a soul reaper's kido." "Then who is it? Another visored?" "I don't know. The strange thing is that they didn't break through the force-field. They Slipped through. Not even a visored should be able to do that." "Then, who or what is it?" " ... It's coming." "It's a Human?" "Uh ... Um ... E-excuse me ... where's the Bathroom? — Tite Kubo

Because we are amorphous we hold that in reverence, thus the blade is swung. — Tite Kubo

Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape.
~Uryu Ishida — Tite Kubo

Do you know why the big brother is born first? It's to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I'll kill you" ... You never, ever say something like that. — Tite Kubo

Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck? — Tite Kubo

I wish i were the rain that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. — Tite Kubo

I hate loneliness, but it loves me. — Tite Kubo

No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own. — Tite Kubo

We fear which we cannot see — Tite Kubo

Holy crap! Your story was so long I forgot the beginning! - Ichigo Kurosaki — Tite Kubo

I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes.
~Soi Fon — Tite Kubo

Well if that's the kind of pride you're talking about, you can bet your ass, I'm going to mess with it. — Tite Kubo

Noooo, there's no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai! - Urahara Kisuke — Tite Kubo

The hardest thing about being a manga-ka is that it's a weekly thing. — Tite Kubo

I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it. — Tite Kubo

I'll cry!! Ububu ... BUEEEEEEE!! I ... Ichigo, you thupid! Baldy!! Piece of poop!
Ichigo: Alright! Alright! I get it already, stop crying!
Nel: Impotent!
Ichigo: I'm not impotent!!
Rukia: What's he shouting about?
Nel: Virgin!!!
Ichigo: SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!!! — Tite Kubo

We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful
Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge
Unable to step out into the sky
Like that fearless flower
Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice — Tite Kubo

Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are. — Tite Kubo

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself. — Tite Kubo

Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life ... and fights to defend pride ... — Tite Kubo

The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults — Tite Kubo

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again. — Tite Kubo

We must never shed tears
That is the life form's defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it. — Tite Kubo

you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands...you make me sick...show me your bankai and I will crush it...I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees...I will never let you say those words to Rukia again...
~Ichigo Kurosaki — Tite Kubo

We are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin. — Tite Kubo

We come together,
Like drops of water, like astral bodies.
We oppose each other,
Like magnets, like the colors of skin. — Tite Kubo

Pinned under the air that grates like a claw
Every time I look up to the sky
I learn that I am trapped in this world
If only that sky would crumble and fall
I could fly to anywhere — Tite Kubo

Cats cant speak, that's common sense.
-Yoruichi — Tite Kubo

People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them. — Tite Kubo

Abandon your fear, move forward and never stop. Retreat and you will age. Hesitate and you will die. — Tite Kubo

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over. — Tite Kubo

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira — Tite Kubo

I've always wanted to be a manga-ka, so I'm doing what I love. — Tite Kubo

Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret. — Tite Kubo

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place. — Tite Kubo

if i were rain,
that join sky and earth that otherwise never touch, could i join two hearths as well? — Tite Kubo

The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want. — Tite Kubo

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you. — Tite Kubo

Don't die. Don't die! You don't have to win. You don't have to keep trying! Just don't get hurt anymore, please! — Tite Kubo

Rukia: Why is she glaring at me?
Ichigo: I wonder..
Nel: What's your welationship with Itsygo?
Rukia: Huh?
Renji: Popular with the ladies, eh?
Ichigo: Kiss my ass. — Tite Kubo

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other. — Tite Kubo

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding.
~Sosuke Aizen — Tite Kubo

Fear is necessary for evolution. The fear that one could be destroyed at any moment. — Sosuke Aizen

Along this road, we won't stop moving forward
Not even if we become separated from one another.
For us, most of all, there was never a time, never a place where you could just stand still
But even so, if there were times when we were afraid, when we'd look back on it all and wonder
We'd just say that is was our destiny, wouldn't we?
So we started off, all walking down the same road — Tite Kubo

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only
what is convenient for them. They have no other
way of living. — Tite Kubo

You're exactly right, Aizen. My blade is full of hate. I didn't come here to fight you. I came here to violently hack you to pieces. — Tite Kubo

If you give me wings I will soar for you Even if this whole land Sinks down to the water If you give me a sword I will fight for you Even if this whole sky Shoots through with your light — Tite Kubo

You will always be my best friend. — Tite Kubo

The rain drags Black Sun down, but the rain dried by White Moon. — Tite Kubo

I hit something...alright. — Tite Kubo

That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat.
~Kisuke Urahara — Tite Kubo

... What of this "despair?" I know it all too well... because up until now... I've climbed up, kicked it in it's teeth, and surpassed it... over and over again just to make it to this very moment! — Tite Kubo

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing. — Tite Kubo

There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain.
~Toshiro Hitsugaya — Tite Kubo

I had a lot of things I wanted to do ... I want to be a teacher ... I also want to be an astronaut ... and also make my own cake shop ... I want to go to the sweets bakery and say "I want one of everything", ohhhh I wish I could live life five times over ... Then I'd be born in five different places, and I'd stuff myself with different food from around the world ... I'd live five different lives with five different occupations ... and then, for those five times ... I'd fall in love with the same person ... — Tite Kubo

We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts — Tite Kubo

Methods of detoxifying and processing plants for human use are known throughout the world, and include a variety of techniques, including dehydration, application of heat, leaching, and fermentation, among others (Johns and Kubo 1988). While it is difficult to trace the origins of these methods, or to answer the questions of how certain groups learned to detoxify and process useful plants in their environment, to make a blanket claim that certain cultures were incapable of discovering plant properties, and the methods necessary for rendering them same and useful, seems naive at best. — John Rush

I don't want you to rescue me you said, go home you said. — Tite Kubo

Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight?
Ichigo: Five people and a cat — Tite Kubo

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games ... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it. — Tite Kubo

Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before. — Tite Kubo

I was created, then the Society ordered the destruction of all mods. The day after I was born, the date of my death was set! So I sweated in that pill, just waiting to die. Day after day, my brothers and sisters were killed. Then I got lucky and got shipped out with a load of goods by mistake. Still, I always expected to be discovered and destroyed. I had a lot of time to think about things. I decided no one has the right to take a life. I exist! I should have the right to live and die freely!! Like humans, or even bugs. Even a mod should have that right. So I refuse to take a life. I won't kill ... not anything! — Tite Kubo

We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained. — Tite Kubo

They say even death can't cure an idiot.
-Ririn — Tite Kubo

You gotta wonder about someone who would be dumb enough to fallo a person as crazy as him!
wait, I think I just insulted myself
- ganju — Tite Kubo

I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword. — Tite Kubo

He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword.
-Hisagi Shuuhei — Tite Kubo

No, nothing can change my world
Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising — Tite Kubo

In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out. However, what meaning is there in perfection? None. Not a bit ... After perfection there exists nothing higher. Not even room for creation which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either. Understand? To scientists like ourselves, perfection is despair. - Kurotsuchi Mayuri (Bleach 306) — Tite Kubo

It's meaningless to just live, it's meaningless to just fight, cause i wanna win and survive !!!! — Tite Kubo

Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there? — Tite Kubo

Abandon your fear. Look forward. Move forward and never stop. You'll age if you pull back. You'll die if you hesitate.
-Zangetsu — Tite Kubo

People who use dirty methods to hurt others ... will be destroyed with methods that are even dirtier than theirs!! That's what I call justice!! Not to mention ... journalism! - Wolfgangina Lalla Getto — Tite Kubo

Thank you, Rukia ... Because of you, the rain has stopped falling. — Tite Kubo

If I were rain,
That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,
Could I join two hearts as well? — Tite Kubo

Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks ...
Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading.
So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks ...
Lets us sparkle brightly,
Always ... — Tite Kubo

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not. — Tite Kubo

Truth only exists for those who cling to it.
Sosuke Aizen — Tite Kubo

If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki — Tite Kubo

As we approach the crucial battleground, believe that our blades will not shatter.
Believe that our resolve will not weaken.
Though our paths may diverge, our iron hearts remain together.
Swear, that though the land itself may break asunder...We will come back alive! ~Renji Abarai — Tite Kubo

A crossroad. What a pain in the ass spot to end up in. (Abarai Renji, Bleach) — Tite Kubo