Yuu Kamiya > Quotes

“They say people can change, but is that really true? If they decide they want to fly, will they grow wings? I don't think so. You don't change yourself. You change How you do things. You have to make your own way. You have to create a way to fly,even while staying the same.”
― Yū Kamiya

“Checkmate" doesn't mean you've simply cornered the enemy king.It's a declaration that the enemy king is yours.”
― Yū Kamiya

“This is what happens when you don’t carefully delineate the rules of the game.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Vol. 2

“Penalized if you won too much.—The sister who, thanks to being too smart, was alone and bullied with no one to understand her. Penalized if you lost too much.—The brother who kept failing and getting yelled at by his teachers and parents, yet kept smiling.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Vol. 1

“Rules, premises, wagers, psychology, skill levels, timing, conditions… All these ‘invisible variables’ determine the outcome of the game before it even begins. There’s no such thing as luck.” —Luck. It was just another name for an unpredictable fate, dictated by invisible variables.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Vol. 2

“The enemy of the strong are the weak, but the enemy of the weak are not the strong, but the weakest yet.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game, No Life Vol. 4

“An idiot that knows he's and idiot,is even harder to deal with then an idiot that thinks he isn't.”
― Yū Kamiya

“Namely- player- and prayer. One who followed their own will, marching forward--opening the unknown, confronting the future. Or one who deferred to another's will, closing their eyes--turning from the unknown, entrusting the future.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game, No Life Vol. 5

“Life is not a game of luck. If you wanna win, work hard.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Please!, Vol. 1

“Our precious lives, when you step back and look at them, are a kind of game. Try imagining the game described by the exciting copy above. A literal once-in-a-lifetime adventure—the grand game of life.
You start playing. First, there’s a random character creation process that proceeds automatically as a collaboration between your parents. There’s the heartwarming opening with your mom and your dad and a thousand blessings and all that, and then finally, you get to dive in. You get a rough grasp on the controls, and then you’re tossed into “school,” a microcosmic tutorial for the heavy seas of society—
The game’s setting—Earth. Awaiting us as we’re tossed into a corner of that oversized map is a massive sandbox game. There we have a vast array of choices, a spectacular degree of freedom, and countless minigames. Inspired by the hype, we advance just as advertised, but it’s not long before we realize something.
—We’ve been had.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game, No Life Vol. 5

“They knew the answer. —That it was the most fail kind of game ever.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Vol. 1

“Just thinking in terms of winning in the first place makes you a loser…”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Vol. 2

“Understanding was never a matter of just memorizing facts to increase one’s knowledge. It was something that came from doing, from bashing oneself, until it finally soaked into the bones.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game, No Life Vol. 5

“Imperfection. What it meant—was the quest to be perfect. Because one was imperfect, one reached for the unknown, for the future, for hope—reached to grasp them.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game, No Life Vol. 5

“A middle-aged man in his birthday suit with two little girls? Isn’t that totally asking for the cops?!”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Vol. 7

“Certainly when that ancient holy guy said, “Love thy neighbor,” he couldn’t have meant, “Sleep with the wife next door.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game, No Life Vol. 4

“Smile as you cut off your d*ck and be refreshed in death.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Vol. 7

“Lose yourself in the distant flowers, and you may trip on the stones at your feet.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game, No Life Vol. 4

“By now, there is none with power superior to mine. [...] Therefore, there are things beyond my ken. [...] By that which is beyond my ken, by that which the weak alone understand, by that which is unknown to me for my strength, I may be defeated.”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game, No Life Vol. 5

“O ye who expend your might and force and arms and mortality building a tower of the dead, and yet call yourselves wise, prove me this: What shall set you apart from the witless beasts?”
― Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life, Vol. 1