Osamu Tezuka Quotes

#1. I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.

Akira Toriyama

#2. The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.

Douglas Huebler

#3. My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death ...

Osamu Tezuka

#4. Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is ... there is no conclusion yet.

Osamu Tezuka

#5. But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Martin Schulz

#6. If a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.

Jonathan Swift

#7. Now we are living in the age of comics as air

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#8. Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

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#9. Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

Tom Baker

#10. What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

Osamu Tezuka

#11. Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.

Osamu Tezuka

#12. Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.

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#13. It's not like I had a breakdown, though it kind of felt like it at the time. I agreed to everything that happened. You can't really be at work and be like, "That's it. I've had too much. I'm going home."

Zachary Cole Smith

#14. Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

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#15. There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!
-Dr. Honma

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#16. By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

Osamu Tezuka

#17. I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear ... and find peace in its bosom.

Osamu Tezuka

#18. Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

Alan Dundes

#19. In the lower classes the school master does not work for the parent, but against the parent. Modern education meanshanding down the customs of the minority, and rooting out the customs of the majority.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. I'm still living in my post-war.

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#21. He had been a sailor and a sinner

Stephen King

#22. A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.

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#23. I might not like the fact that you are my commander, Greek, but as a soldier I will obey you regardless of my personal distaste for your company. (Valerius)
Gee, T-Red, doesn't it make you all warm and fuzzy just to be near him? (Talon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

Osamu Tezuka

#25. So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Neal Shusterman

#26. How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

Ernest Hemingway,

#27. Love all creatures! Love everything that has life!

Osamu Tezuka