Osamu Tezuka Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

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

Think about it. We all have our bits of madness. Don't be too harsh about the madness of others.

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

I wanted it so much. So much sometimes it felt like I couldn't breathe. Sometimes I would cry, not because I was sad, but because it hurt, physical pain from the intensity of wanting something so much. I'm a good student of philosophy, I know my Stoics, Cynics, their advice, that, when a desire is so intense it hurts you, the healthy path is to detach, unwant it, let it go. The healthy thing for the self. But there are a lot of reasons one can want to be an author: acclaim, wealth, self-respect, finding a community, the finite immortality of name in print, so many more. But I wanted it to add my voice to the Great Conversation, to reply to Diderot, Voltaire, Osamu Tezuka, and Alfred Bester, so people would read my books and think new things, and make new things from those thoughts, my little contribution to the path which flows from Gilgamesh and Homer to the stars. And that isn't just for me. It's for you. Which means it was the right choice to hang on to the desire, even when it hurt so much.

As usual, the deed was less daunting than the thought of it.

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

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!

Acquaintances are not always friends

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

I'm still living in my post-war.

Apa pun pekerjaanmu..apa pun kastamu..kau tetap bisa mencapai pencerahan, tapi kau harus mempertimbangkan yang berikut ini.. Apa yang sudah pernah kaulakukan? Apakah itu berguna bagimu? Apakah itu berguna bagi orang lain? Atau apakah itu berguna bagi orang banyak? Apakah itu berguna bagi negerimu? Apakah itu juga berguna bagi dunia? Apa itu sangat penting bagi semua makhluk hidup dan seluruh alam? Jika tidak, kau harus berhenti.

Even if there are no new Mighty Atom manga or films created, the Mighty Atom character has become a permanent fixture of both Japanese and global pop culture.

These eyes has seen diverse misfortunes follow from diverse desires

Selagi peradaban berkembang, begitu pula nafsu. Api akan membesar terus dan menyebabkan berbagai malapetaka. Pada akhirnya seluruh dunia akan binasa. Jika manusia ingin selamat, api harus dipadamkan. Itu berarti meredam nafsu dan hidup wajar.

En la naturaleza, personas, animales o serpientes, estamos todos en el mismo barco

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

Phoenix." Tezuka's unfinished masterpiece. "Phoenix" is the Christ of manga's ode to change... Resurrection... Since I am such a noted manga scholar, you might think my life has always been a roaring success... But the truth is that I'm forever attempting to be reborn out of the flames of my own misery and painfully obvious worthlessness.

I was a bird. I lived a bird's life from birth to death. I was born the thirty-second chick in the Jipu family. I remember everything in detail. I remember breaking out of the shell at birth. But I learned later that my mother had gently cracked the shell first to ease my way. I dozed under my mother's chest for the first few days. Her feathers were so warm and soft! I was strong, so I kicked away my siblings to keep the cozy spot. Just 10 days after I was born, I was given flying lessons. We all had to learn quickly because there were snakes and owls and hawks. My little brothers and sisters, who didn't practice enough, all died. My little sister looked so unhappy when she got caught. I can still see her face. Before I could fly, I hadn't known that our nest was on the second-lowest branch of a big tree. My parents chose the location wisely. Snakes could reach the lowest branch and eagles and hawks could attack us if we lived at the top. We soared through the sky, above mountains and forests. But it wasn't just for fun! We always had to watch out for enemies, and to hunt for food. Death was always nearby. You could easily starve or freeze to death. Life wasn't easy. Once, I got caught in a monsoon. I smacked into a tree and lay bleeding for days. Many of my family and friends died, one after another. To help rebuild our clan, I found myself a female and married her. She was so sweet. She laid many eggs, but one day, a human cut down the tree we lived in, crushing all the eggs and my beloved. A bird's life is an endless battle against death. I survived for many years before I finally met my end. I found a worm at some harvest festival. I came fluttering down. It was a bad mistake. Some big guy was waiting to ambush hungry little birdies like me. I heard my own guts pop. It was clear to me that I was going to die at last. And I wanted to know where I'd go when I died.

A cloud never stays the same shape for very long. . . Like a cloud, a man’s fortunes are ever-shifting.

A person’s life changes like a cloud. No life is uniformly happy or unhappy over its course. And a cloud doesn’t change shape on its own. The winds, the heat, the sun, the night, and day force the change! Likewise with our fates: they have causes. There is no fate that does not have a cause.

Whether it is born on trash or on flowers, an elephant is an elephant. The same is true for humans.

Humans are animals gifted with magnificent intelligence and a sense of what is right and wrong. But there will always be those who choose to ignore that wisdom and commit acts of astonishing stupidity.