Rurouni Kenshin quotes

Just because you die... doesn't mean that the people you killed will come back to life... instead using this sword to save just one more soul is repentance in true sense.

Whatever you lose, you'll find it again, but what you throw away you'll never get it back.

You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.

Helping other people is the best way to make up for your mistakes.

I want you to understand something. If you should lose, not only does your future end, but also the future of the one you are trying to protect. Defeat isn't an option for the sword that protects others. You should keep that thought engraved in your heart.

We shouldn't blame ourselves for bad things that happened to us. Sometimes, no matter what we do, we are victims of the circumstances. We should just have to pull ourselves out.

If fighting could provide us with the truth, nobody would make any mistakes in their lives. A person's life is not that easy. The truth you must learn from yourself, from how you live your life.

When I was at the brink of life and death, I used all of my will to survive. I drew upon a different power than that of self-sacrifice and mastered an ultimate technique. The will to live is stronger than anything else. That was the ray of light that my master risked his life to show me. As Hitokiri Battousai, I have committed so many crimes that I cannot possibly repent for them. That is why I had secretly believed that it didn't matter when I died or was killed. However, now... even if I am formally punished or restrained. I will never lose the will to live.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the living.

You'll only realize that you truly love someone if they already caused you enormous pain. Your enemies can never hurt you the way your loved ones can. It's the people close to your heart that can give you the most piercing wound. Love is a double-edged sword, it can heal the wound faster or it can sink the blade even deeper.

Accepting one's own strength, and the strength of others, is an important quality of a swordsman.

When one person kills, resentment is born. That resentment makes a person kill again. To sever that vicious cycle--that is the purpose of this sword that cannot kill.

We once fought together for an ideal with our swords. It wasn't for power or for glory, but to create a peaceful world where people could live without fear. And if you should forget about that, then what did we fight the revolution for?

Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage.

What is truly good about a person can't be expressed in words, that it can not. What matters is the feeling of trust one gets after spending time with him.

Are you saddened by your lack of power, young one?

You believe that the strong exist to cull the weak. To use them as food. But you are mistaken... The strong exist, not to feed off of the weak, but to protect them!

You can use whatever technique you like, but now that I said I will kill you... your death tonight has been assured.

You will not touch these innocent people with even one inch of your dirty blades, if you require an opponent, I will fight you. If you wanna taste the ground, feel free to attack me.

The scar of my past will determine my future!

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.

A sword is a weapon. The art of swordsmanship is learning how to kill. What Miss Kaoru says is nothing but sweet and innocent talk, only those whose hands have never been stained with the blood of man can believe.

Perhaps the distant part of the sky always seems clearest, so that we will always strive to reach it.

The moment you find the courage to give up your life for someone... Would be the moment you understand love.

I would think that he's already seen through your heart, and is simply playing the fool to use you. He yanks on the strings of your cheap pride and you dance like a little marionette.

A man that can't hold on to his beliefs can only be pathetic, dead or alive.

Let's just say... what's mine is mine, and what's yours... is also mine.

You can train a dog with food. You can buy a person with money. But there isn't a man alive able to influence the wolves of Mibu! Some things will never change. A wolf will always be a wolf.

Everyone has a past they wish to erase.

Ugly? I'll have you know they call me The Rose of Martial Arts around here!

Oh well, I guess all those who are in love do crazy things.

Hey, I'll have you know that I almost really did kick the bucket during that training, so don't you dare sum it all up in one word, even if it is a nice one like "potential".

The only atonement you will ever realize will be that of you're own death. You will be justly and severely punished, before you ever find the peace you seek Kenshin. That is the meaning of 'Jinchū'. Those who live must act in the place of those who have died. YOU ARE A CRIMINAL SO DIE LIKE ONE! I will make you suffer and scream, you took my sister... You destroyed her happiness... SUFFER KENSHIN, DIE! YOU MISERABLE DOG!!

Who falls for who depends completely on the person. If there are a hundred people, there are a hundred ways to love... There never is one absolute form of love.

The world is not so simple. You can't save people with kindness only.

When you are trying to rebuild a build that was made incorrectly, you first have to destroy it. I thought this was the true.

In this world, the weak are the sustenance of the strong. The strong live, the weak die.