Makoto Shinkai Quotes

“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

“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.”

— Makoto Shinkai

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

“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

“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.”

— Makoto Shinkai

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

— Makoto Shinkai

“And right then it felt like I finally understood where everything was, eternity, the heart , the soul. It was like I was sharing every experience I'd ever had in my past 13 years. And then, the next moment, I became unbearably sad. I didn't know what to do with these feeling. Her warmth, her soul. How was I supposed to treat them? That, I did not know. Then right then, I clearly understood that we would never be together. Our lives not yet fully realized, the vast expanse of time. They lay before us and there was nothing we could do. But then, all my worries, all my doubt, started melting away. All that was left were Akari's soft lips on mine.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.”

— Makoto Shinkai

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

“The feelings were still fresh as if it all just happened yesterday.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“In the end the train stood 2 hours motionless in the middle of nowhere.
Every minute seemed like an eternity.
Time felt crept by slowly, with clear malice towards me. All i could do was grip my teeth and try to hold back my tears ...
Akari ... Please, don't wait for me ...
If you'd just go home.”

— Makoto Shinkai

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

— Makoto Shinkai

“To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“I love you. I can't remember when I fell in love with you but very naturally, I had
fallen in love with you before I knew it. The fi�rst time I met you, you were a strong
and kind boy. You always protected me.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“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.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“Yesterday, I had a dream ... A dream I have had since long ago. In that dream, we had yet to turn 13. We were in a vast countryside, completely covered with snow. The lights of the houses extended far into the distance, a dazzling sight. We walked on the thick carpet of fresh snow, but didn't leave any footprints.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“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.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“I will craft shoes that will make her want to walk on and on.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“When I was little the sky was closer.”

— Makoto Shinkai