Hajime Isayama > Quotes

“The only thing we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.”
― Hajime Isayama

“The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.”
― Hajime Isayama

“If I can't do it. . . I'll just die.
But if I win, I live.
If I don't fight, I can't win.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 2

“You can't change anything unless you can discard part of yourself too. To surpass monsters, you must be willing to abandon your humanity
- Armin Arlet”
― Hajime Isayama

“On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

“A good person? Well… I don’t really like that term. Because to me, it just seems to mean someone who’s good for you. And I don’t think there’s any one person who’s good for everyone." --Armin Arlert”
― Isayama Hajime

“Once I’m dead, I won’t even be able to remember you. So I’ll win, no matter what. I’ll live, no matter what!”
― Hajime Isayama

“When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 4

“Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.”
― Armin Arlet Shingeki no Kyojin

“We're going to explore the outside world someday, right? Far beyond these walls, there's flaming water, land made of ice, and fields of sand spread wide. It's the world my parents wanted to go to.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 2

“The difference in judgement between you and me originates from different rules derived from past experience.”
― Hajime Isayama

“There's something I firmly believe in: the people who have the ability to change something in this world. All, without exception, have guts to abandon things important to them if they have to. They are those who even abandon their humanity if they're pressed hard to outdo monsters. People who can't throw away something important can never hope to change anything!”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 6

“Tatakae!”
― Hajime Isayama

“Every last person I've seen was the same way. Whether it was booze, women or even God. Family, the king, dreams, children, power... They couldn't keep going unless they were drunk on something. They were all slaves to something.”
― Hajime Isayama, 進撃の巨人 17 [Shingeki no Kyojin 17]

“Channel the anger swelling inside you
Fighting the boundary 'till you break through
Deep in your soul there's no hesitation
So make yourself the one they all fear

There is a wild fire inside you
Burning desire you can't extinguish
Your crimson arrow
Rips through the twilight
This is the moment for war!”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

“Believe in yourself... or believe in me and them... the Survey Corps. I don't know the answer. I never have. Whether you trust in your own strength... or trust in the choies made by reliable comrades. No one knows what the outcome will be. So as much as you can... choose whatever you'll regret the least.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 6

“Levi: I thought I heard dirt moving around in the shape of an idiot. So it was you?”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan: Junior High Omnibus, Vol. 2

“At that moment... I was utterly confused. I've never heard about Titans killing their own kind. Then I was slightly exalted. Because what I was looking at felt like the reification of mankind's anger.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 2

“THERE'S NOTHING FURTHER REMOVED FROM FREEDOM THAN IGNORANCE.”
― Hajime Isayama

“I'm sorry Eren. . . I can't. . . Give up. If I die now. . . I won't even be able to remember you. So no matter what. . . I'm going to win! Whatever I have to do, I'm going to live!!”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 2

“What's so good about giving up? Is it better to escape from reality, to the point where you're throwing away your hope?”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan #1

“You know personally, I think nothing instills discipline like pain.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 4

“Some were filled with pride. Some were filled with hope. Some were filled rage. But all of them screamed”
― Hajime Isayama, 進撃の巨人 18 [Shingeki no Kyojin 18]

“We will die here and trust the meaning of our lives to the next generation.. That is the sole way we can rebel against this cruel world !”
― Hajime Isayama, 進撃の巨人 20 [Shingeki no Kyojin 20]

“A person who cannot give up anything can change nothing.”
― Hajime Isayama

“I wanna know what's going on out there. I'd hate to live my entire life inside the walls as an ignorant!”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

“I know that people like you exist. I respect that. Going against the flow, it takes a lot of courage. Maybe people who can do it are just stupid, but what I'm sure of is that people like that are rare. So you can't call them common. You can't call them normal either. People like you get called special. So what should you call people like us then? People who put their own interests ahead of others? People who go along with it when they see injustice? What do you call them? Worthless or evil? I do think we're worthless and we're definitely evil, but doesn't that just make us regular people? So even if I'm the kind of weak person who gets swept along with the flow, I just want you to think of me as human, that's all.”
― Hajime Isayama, 進撃の巨人 10 [Shingeki no Kyojin 10]

“I wasn't free... I realized that I had been living in a birdcage all that time .. The world was so big but the'd forced me into a tiny cage”
― Hajime Isayama, 進撃の巨人 18 [Shingeki no Kyojin 18]

“but everyone is burdened by certain something and they plunge headfirst into hell.
In most cases that something is not their own will, usually it is their environment's or other people's expectations, and that leaves them no choice.
however, but the hell those who choose to burden themselves see is different, on the other side of the hell they can see something.
that thing they see might be hope or it could be just another hell.
But you will never know, unless you keep moving forward.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan #97

“To raise above monsters, we have to abandon our humanity. When we fight, we become fire with fire.”
― Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan #1