Black Butler, Vol. 1 Quotes

“I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway...”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Something once lost will never return”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“How interesting... humans will drag others down in order to get what they want even in death.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“I'm simply one hell of a butler”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Moping around with sadness and sorrow… what will come of it? Even dead people can do that. However, I’ll live and stand on my own two legs. If we are going to die one day, wouldn’t it be better to have no regrets?”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Once drowned in the depths of darkness, you lose sight of light. When that light has dispersed there is no return. My light has died out long ago and so there’s nothing back for me to go back, or look forward to I shall continue to indulge myself in this darkness until it completely consumes me, then I will be nothing but an empty course left on this cold & cruel world to rot.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Yes, my lord. I devote my entire being to you. Until the day… that lies become truth.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“However far I fall as long as there’s so much as a thread left I will use it to climb. I’ll take hold of it. I refuse to give up while I’m still human I can do that much. But every person must decide on his own whether to grab it.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Death is like being born, but backwards. It only hurts for a little while, then a new life begins. A life with no sorrow, no pain, a glorious new beginning. A beginning that will last an eternity.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Humans are easily tempted. When they are poised on the edge of hellish despair, and a spider-thin thread of salvation presents itself, they will invariably grasp it. No matter the human.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“There are some things you can never get back, no matter how much effort you put in. And there are some feelings of despair, that you can never ever shake off.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“You aren’t wrong. You fought to protect your world. What’s wrong with that? In the end, “justice” is just an official line taken by those in power to serve their own ends. No one’s looking out for others. If you’re careless, you’ll be robbed. There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who steal, and those who are stolen from. And today, I steal your futures. That’s all this is.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“I’m afraid when something is truly lost, one can never get it back again.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“I am simply one Hell of a butler”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“How sade should it be that laughter should vanish from this place.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1