Makoto Shinkai > Quotes

“Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“A faint clap of thunder Clouded skies,
Perhaps rain comes
Will you stay here with me?”
― Makoto Shinkai, The Garden of Words

“I feel like I’m always searching for someone, or something.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“I love you. I can't remember when I fell in love with you but very naturally, I had fallen in love with you before I knew it. The first time I met you, you were a strong and kind boy. You always protected me.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“This is not the place for me. I really think that I don't belong here. But I don't know where I want to go, and I don't have legs that can carry me somewhere.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“Even if the world is cruel, even if all I have is loneliness, I’ll still live with everything I’ve got. Even if this emotion is all I have, I’ll keep struggling.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journey to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 秒速5センチメートル 1 [Byousoku 5 Centimeter 1]

“In the evenings, before I went to sleep, and in the mornings, in the moment I woke up, I realized I was praying for rain.”
― Makoto Shinkai, The Garden of Words

“To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.”
― Makoto Shinkai, The Garden of Words

“I realize now, I was learning how to walk as well. I haven’t mastered the steps, I fall too. But im on my path, my path... and one day that path... will take me to her.”
― Makoto Shinkai, The Garden of Words

“And right then it felt like I finally understood where everything was, eternity, the heart , the soul. It was like I was sharing every experience I'd ever had in my past 13 years. And then, the next moment, I became unbearably sad. I didn't know what to do with these feeling. Her warmth, her soul. How was I supposed to treat them? That, I did not know. Then right then, I clearly understood that we would never be together. Our lives not yet fully realized, the vast expanse of time. They lay before us and there was nothing we could do. But then, all my worries, all my doubt, started melting away. All that was left were Akari's soft lips on mine.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 秒速5センチメートル 1 [Byousoku 5 Centimeter 1]

“In the end, the train stood 2 hours motionless in the middle of nowhere.
Every minute seemed like an eternity.
Time felt crept by slowly, with clear malice towards me. All I could do was grip my teeth and try to hold back my tears...
Akari... Please, don't wait for me...
If you'd just go home.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“The feelings were still fresh as if it all just happened yesterday.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“I’m always searching for something, for someone. This feeling has possessed me I think, from that day… That day when the stars came falling.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“I’ve been worried for a long time. I’ve just been doing what I could. I don’t really have much choice.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“No matter what happens, even if the stars fall, I will live.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“Yesterday, I had a dream... A dream I have had since long ago. In that dream, we had yet to turn 13. We were in a vast countryside, completely covered with snow. The lights of the houses extended far into the distance, a dazzling sight. We walked on the thick caprpet of fresh snow, but did not leave any footprints. And like that... 'Someday we will be able to watch the cherry blossoms together again'. Both of us, without any doubt... That's what we thought.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second

“I love her face when she smiles. But it could be that her smile is a lie that she uses to hide her clenched teeth. I don't understand why she cried. I can't even say, "You'll be all right." But I will always be by your side. After all, I am your cat.”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“Even if words are lost, tradition should be handed down.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“... i fili si torcono e si intrecciano, a volte si sciolgono e si uniscono di nuovo. Questo è Musubi, questo è il tempo.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“No human is always strong, but no human is weak forever, either.”
― Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat

“I'm not afraid of anything now. I'm not scared of anyone. I'm not lonely anymore. I finally understand. I'm in love. We're in love. That means we'll meet again. I'm sure of it. And so I'll live. I'll survive this. No matter what happens, even if the stars fall, I will live.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“Sto venendo a cercare te, che non ho mai incontrato.”
― Makoto Shinkai, your name.

“Still, even now, I'm fighting my way through. Perhaps it's a bit dramatic to say, but I'm struggling against life. Wasn't that what I decided once? To struggle. To live. To breathe and walk. To run. To eat. To bind, musubi. To live an ordinary life so I shed tears over the sights of a perfectly ordinary town.”
― Makoto Shinkai, Your name.

“Who cares if we don't see the sunshine again, I want you more than any blue sky." - Hodaka”
― Makoto Shinkai, Weathering With You

“I’m just trying to live my life, but it seems as if sadness always piles itself up around me. It’s in my bed, the toothbrush in my bathroom, and the memory of my cellphone. Over the past few years, I’ve wanted to move on, I’ve wanted to take hold of something I couldn’t reach. What that is, I have no idea. Not knowing where such obsessive thoughts were coming from, I simply drowned myself in my work. Then one day I realized that my heart was withering, and in it there was nothing but pain. And that my beliefs, that I once held so passionately, had completely disappeared.”
― Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters Per Second

“I want you to forget what i told you earlier, I... I couldn’t love someone like you. I hate you. I thought it the second i saw you in the park. You were just poison! Drinking beer in the morning, quoting some stupid Tanka to me! You listening to other people talking all day just so you never have to reveal a thing about yourself! You knew who I was, I was just a kid! What were you thinking what’s wrong with you?! If I’d know who you were I wouldn’t have told you a thing about me or my dreams. You don’t think I can do it! You don’t think I’ll ever amount to anything! What is that why you didn’t say anything to me? You thought maybe you'd humor the little kid? Indulge his fantasies for a little while! Just string him along? Just say it I’ll never measure up to my dreams! You knew from the beginning you could have just admitted it! But you played along. So tell me god damn it! Tell me that little kids should run along to school! Tell me that you hate me! Say it! Come on listener say something for a change! You loser! Its because you act like that. You never say what's important! You act like it's none of your business! You've been living your whole life alone!”
― Makoto Shinkai