Quotes / Introverted

Naruto Uzumaki

• "My name is Naruto Uzumaki." He began, his eyes looking now down on the ground. 'I am the jailer of the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, Konoha hates me and I'm nearly dead last. I'd like to have friends.' "I like silence," he said then, "and homemade ramen. I dislike the time it takes to prepare the ramen, or when it burns or turns out raw. I dislike being stared at, or people whispering behind my back. My dream…" he closed his eyes, "My dream is…" 'revenge' wasn't the answer. He hated the glares, the whispers, the pettiness of some people, but he couldn't hate all of Konoha. Some people had been kind to him, people like Teuchi and Ayame. The Third Hokage too had helped him a great deal.
• "My dream is…to make friends." He said out loud, "And to keep them no matter what."

• "Being angry never works," Naruto whispered. "Being…angry, yelling, ranting, screaming…it never works," his voice was cracked as he spoke, his eyes mystified. "People don't listen. They avert their gazes. They ignore you. It doesn't matter what you do then, they just don't care. You start wondering if you're invisible. You know, the Kyuubi's right: people just don't want to listen."

• "Words mean nothing."

• "Accidents happen. It was a mistake. You couldn't know it would end like this. This isn't your fault. Don't apologize." Naruto's eyes were glazed over. "Those words…they mean nothing!"

• The problem with entering the burrow of the white rabbit...wasn't how deep it was, but the fact that, in the end...there wasn't land.
  Only a pool of bubbling acid for the foolish.

Sakura Haruno

• "I'm taking your eye, Naruto. Please, answer me. Please tell me it's a lie and that you're innocent. Please, I don't want to. I don't want to take away your eye. Please don't force me…please." Eye Scream ensues

Sai

• "Should I be touched?" Sai remarked calmly. "This isn't a double meaning. If you dare touch me I will chop your hand off. Keep your harem to females only, Dickless."

Danzo Shimura

• "Good shinobi do not battle. They murder. They kill. They steal. Never, should a good shinobi be seen as he kills. To engage battle in the frontline is to not be a good shinobi. Samurais fight battles. Shinobi kill and murder."

• "But then again, it's the world we live in, where the young die and old men live to make a fool out of themselves."

• "The most terrifying moment in the shinobi world is not the first kill, Naruto. It's not even the first close brush with death. It's the moment one close to you dies, killed by enemy hands. It breaks the last fleeting innocence that 'none will die' of your friends. The moment a teammate, a fellow Genin, a Jounin-sensei dies…it's the moment you realize that death has no mercy…and that is what truly breaks a shinobi out of his old life and into his new one, as a ninja."

• "Your actions, all of them, will be recorded for posterity. Show yourself strong, and the enemies of Konoha will think twice before attacking the village. Show yourself weak…and war…war might come to the village within a week. That is… that is the extent of the burden you have to carry as the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi."
  • "You have to show your loyalty to the world, your disinterest, your might, your power and strength. You have to become the weapon that Konoha needs!"

• "If…my Body is weak…" Danzo muttered. "If…my Technique is insufficient…If…my Mind isn't sharp enough…THEN LET MY SACRIFICE BE ENOUGH! The Will Of Fire…" Danzo croaked with his last breath. "LET IT BURN YOU TO ASHES!"

Gaara

• "And now die! DIE ALONE, SWALLOWED IN MISERY!"

Hagewashi

• "We feast upon our kin and our enemies, for in death all are equal food to us."

Hiruzen Sarutobi

• "I really am too old to be Hokage."

• "You are shinobi. Your duties are many, your privileges few. You are military. You are leafs that shield the tree, the branches that hold steady against the wind. You are the bark that defends against the elements and the roots that anchor the trunk to the world. You are shinobi, and sometimes you are family, sometimes you are friends, sometimes…yes, sometimes you are also tools."

Kakuzu

• I know your eyes, kid. You can hide them, you can claim it was a mistake or an error later on, but the moment you accepted to exchange this scroll, this technique…the moment you accepted the easy way out, that was the moment you truly became a shinobi. We don't fight for honour or some horse-crap bullshit like loyalty. We're shinobi. We fight for money. We bleed and kill for money and power.

• "With money, you can't buy friends…but you can buy shinobi to kill your enemies. With money, you can't buy freedom, but you can buy shinobi to kill your jailers. With money, you can't buy love, but you can buy a shinobi to kill your rivals. Shinobi are creatures of greed and wants. We don't have a soul: we sold it to the devil. We don't have honour: we exchanged it for victory. We don't have darkness…we aren't evil. We simply…are."

• "We are not monsters, but shinobi. We are not evil demons, but shinobi. We are not heroes of justice or avengers, but shinobi. Shi-Nobi. Many will tell you that we have the Kanji for Endure, because we endure…those are liars. We are Shinobu, those who conceal themselves, who do things secretly, who steal...and yet, Shi-Nobu can also be considered as the two words for 'Death' and 'Faith'...or 'Death' and 'Extend'. We are those who have faith that death shall come, or those that extend death onto others. We have no peace of mind, no sin to which we will not lower ourselves…"

Kyuubi/Kurama

• "We are in your mind," Kurama said. "Here, nothing can hurt you...except memories."

• "Do you know the most horrible feeling in the world, Naruto Uzumaki? It is to scream your innocence against an empty room, while you stand chained and bound in a cage from which there is no exit, forever entrapped and forever forced to be nothing more than a slave to the whims of another. Would you know how that feels, Naruto? It feels like hell. I will forever remember the words of those two. 'It is better if you stay down here, forever forgotten' was always their message."

• "I do not ask you to free me. Your answer will be the same as that of those before you. 'I cannot, the village needs you' or 'your power will only bring hatred in the world' or 'with you at bay, no war will ever be unleashed'. I am nothing more than a weapon now, Naruto Uzumaki. And by that extension…You are one too. For I am shackled to Konoha, and so are you. For I am shackled to you…as you are to me. You are no longer a person, Naruto…as I never was considered a real being. Only a mass of chakra, incomplete, was what I was referred as…"

• "Are those bonds you are thinking of…or shackles and chains? Do they clink as you look at them? Remember my words, Naruto Uzumaki. One day, you will wake up and see the truth as I see it. That day, you will realize that my words are the only truth in the world. That moment, that precise instant, you will come to me again and you will ask me 'set me free' and I will answer you, rest assured, that to set you free you will have to pay me."

• "All the hatred of the world, Naruto, converges within me. Do you understand what it means the malice of billions? Do you understand what it means to be filled with the cries of hate of thousands of voices? You cannot understand, but you must know that I wasn't much bigger than a tree, the first time I opened my eyes. If I can level mountains with my tail, smash cities with my might…that is because I was nurtured by the malice of men. A malice I tried to curb…but you humans would not listen!"

• "Finally we were trapped. Jinchuuriki were born. And then they were delivered as cattle, as offers of peace. YOUR PEACE WAS BOUGHT FROM OUR SLAVERY! WE WERE ENSLAVED; WE, so that YOU could live in peace!"
  "We were your guardians…and you made us your prisoners."

• to Shukaku "It's all right to be selfish once, brother." then he eats him.

• "Once taken, a pact with the devil is never something easy to live with, Naruto."

Orochimaru

• "Tell me, am I broken Jiraiya? Or was I broken?"

• A shinobi must always be able to differentiate between various personas. There is a time where acting like a lunatic can earn you more than acting like an intelligent shinobi, and times where humour can work better in distracting your foes than cunningness. To do the unexpected is to win."

• "Action and reaction dictate the ways the world goes. To kill a seedling you need but a little amount of frost. To kill a tree, you need a hurricane…to remove the rot and the filth that is deeply rooted into this world…one needs more than just a light breeze."

• "To keep your calm even in front of the unexpected is what makes a true shinobi skilled and strong enough to survive."

Yamato

• "Baku," Yamato muttered. "You could have done better," he said without a single inflection of emotion in his voice. "Breaking and entering is important for Anbu: fighting in close quarters within houses even more." he is referring to ordering Naruto to slaughter a family in a miner village, and acts as if it was normal.