Shungiku Quotes & Sayings

I won't tell him. I won't tell him that in my whole life, no one have ever made my heart beat like he does. It hurts too much to say this.
- Ritsu Oonodera - (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi) — Shungiku Nakamura

Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution. — Gordon B. Hinckley

You know ... you like me more than you think you do.
Takano Masamune — Shungiku Nakamura

Maybe the reason I believe reality is crueler ...
... is because I've never really loved?
There was a time when I believed that ...
... "Hard work will pay off." or "Your feelings will always reach them."
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse ...
... that I found out that that's a myth.
What should I do ...
If that's what it means to become an adult,
it's not necessarily unfortunate, but really mundane.
But it's not like I'm being negative,
I just turned my back and I am moving forward ...
-Onodera Ritsu — Shungiku Nakamura

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter. — Lemony Snicket

To be loved out of sympathy is more devastating than to be rejected.
-Shinobu — Shungiku Nakamura

If I give up now, nothing will have changed. -Onodera Ritsu — Shungiku Nakamura

I tried hard. I gave it my best.'
That's the enthusiasm we don't need, the sort that doesn't produce results. The more you're cornered, the more important it is ...
... to make your decisions based on reality and not your personal feelings.
- Takano to Onodera — Shungiku Nakamura

The moment you challenged me, you had already lost.
-Usami — Shungiku Nakamura

The person I love right now is the present you.
-Takano Masamune — Shungiku Nakamura

There's so much I want to talk about with you ... so why can't I get it out, I wonder ... ?
I want to reach you ... But the harder I try, the worse it winds up going!
This is how it always for me ... when it comes to you.
- Takano Masamune from Sekaiichi Hatsukoi by Nakamura Shungiku — Shungiku Nakamura

Don't get any funny ideas
When all is said and done, you're still artificial (a thing) ... Not human. Don't make the mistake of falling in love with one. — Shungiku Nakamura

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation. — Agnes Repplier

you follow your own path, I don't know how much money you will accumulate, how much stature you will achieve, or how many titles you will garner. But if you're true to your convictions and principles, I know you're far more likely to feel like a big success. In the end, that feeling will make all the difference. — Robert S. Kaplan

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. — Elbert Hubbard

The pain... the pleasure... and the shame all drive me crazy. — Shungiku Nakamura

I am always, always watching you. And I'll be waiting here for your feelings to catch up on my own. — Shungiku Nakamura

No, pause! I just went into totally stupid girly virgin mode!!
~Takahashi Misaki — Shungiku Nakamura

It's about how there's no such thing as redemption," I whispered. "How you deserve what you get, and no higher power can save you. — Brodi Ashton

For you it's not a matter of can or can't do. Once you say you're going to do something, you do everything to make it happen. That's why I wasn't worried. I've always liked that about you.
- Takano to Onodera — Shungiku Nakamura

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. — Erich Fromm

How many people do you think get to do the thing they love for work? -Takano Masamune to Onodera Ritsu — Shungiku Nakamura

Her husband was a patient man, but she had noticed a glazed look on his face as she'd talked, admittedly for quite a long time, — Liane Moriarty

Takano Masamune- Sometimes I think delinquents are people ... who still have hope that things can still get better if they just put up an SOS sign. But I don't even have the will to lift that sign anymore. — Shungiku Nakamura

Don't you dare try to die again without asking my permission! — Shungiku Nakamura

Even when the thing I want most is right in front of me ... I keep thinking about how I'll just wind up losing it in the end ...
Kisa Shouta(Sekaiichi Hatsukoi)Vol.6 ch.4 — Shungiku Nakamura

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes. — Criss Jami

To everything that comes near you, I am jealous.
-Usagi — Shungiku Nakamura

A work of art comes only from inside a human being. — Edvard Munch

All men are pigs and I hope they die and monkeys take over, then things would be way better. — Meg Cabot

Takano Masamune- " Maybe it's just me being rebellious, but...when I'm shown something so innocent and pure, it forces me to see the filthy part of myself even more and it pisses me off...it makes me want to break him. — Shungiku Nakamura