Kino no Tabi Quotes Part I

Some of my favorites...



Hermes: "The most important thing for a traveler is decisiveness. That holds true for both rookie and veteran travelers. Am I wrong?"
Kino: "The most important thing for a traveler is what saves the traveler after struggling to the bitter end."
Hermes: "What’s that?"
Kino: "That’s luck"


Kino: "Someone once told me that watching the birds made them want to go on a journey."
Hermes: "Who told you that?"
Kino: "I forget..."

"It snows...and it covers up and hides things "

Kino: "It’s pretty interesting"
Hermes: "What is?"
Kino: "The way that when someone expresses anything, someone’s always there to interpret it."
Kino: "Why can’t the world just be a series of events"
Hermes: "Sure. With the last one being tomorrow."
Kino: "I don’t think there is anyone who know how or when the world is going to end. It would be too easy."
Hermes: "But what would you be doing if the world was really going to end tomorrow"
Kino: "The exact same thing I’m doing right now."

Kino: "While everything out there is changing and progressing, the insects singing to the sky remains constant. The only thing that’s certain. The only thing that’s ceaseless and endures."
Hermes: "What’s wrong Kino?"
Kino: You know Hermes, sometimes a traveler also explores their mind.

"Though I did not know the place,
I set out to find the land of my dreams,
Having arrived at the land of my dreams,
I found that I did not know the place."

The Author: "The difference between reality and illusion is that illusions are which humans have created. Life begins when u make a distinction between yourself and others. From that moment, the world becomes a stage in which you are the main character. Yet all people exist in the illusion that they are the main character. But the world, cruel as it is, denies you that role of the main character. It’s quite a twist and everyone is burdened with this sad bit of irony. But there is one way to escape."
Kino: To not to be a main character, to be a smaller role, or…
The Author: "That’s right, to be an author."
Hermes: "You do know he’s crazy right?"
Kino: "All I know is that normal people would never become authors."

Chief Librarian: "In the hall, there are the critics. We try to keep them away from everyone else, because all they do is expound their store of knowledge. They excite themselves with their ranting, the disapproval fills them with the feeling of importance and sick victory, they thrive on spoiling the pleasure and thrashing the creativity of others."

"The world is not beautiful; and that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty."