Makoto Shinkai Quotes

#1. To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.

Makoto Shinkai

#2. When I was little the sky was closer.

Makoto Shinkai

#3. 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

#4. 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. I was caged by him like a bird with clipped wings. I could flutter but I couldn't escape though I'm not certain I'd want to even if I could.

Paloma Beck

#6. A faint clap of thunder Clouded skies,
Perhaps rain comes
Will you stay here with me?

Makoto Shinkai

#7. 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

#8. If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. 8A faint clap of thunder
Even if the rain comes not,
I will stay here, together with you

Shinkai Makoto

#10. Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

Erica Jong

#11. 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

#12. 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.

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#13. I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

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#14. I've been worried for a long time. I've just been doing what I could. I don't really have much choice.

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#15. The feelings were still fresh as if it all just happened yesterday.

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#16. The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [ ... ] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies.

Christopher Moore

#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. By just living one's life, sadness accumulates here and there, be it in the blankets hung out in the sun to dry, the toothbrushes in the bathroom, and the phone history logs.

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#20. All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

Heraclitus

#21. I will craft shoes that will make her want to walk on and on.

Makoto Shinkai