Umineko quotes

"Without love, it cannot be seen."

"It's useless, it's all useless!" ~ Ushiromiya Battler

"People are capable of creating another part of themselves inside themselves at any time. A part that they can truly like." ~ Ushiromiya Jessica

"Both love and happiness are the same as the air. Even though it fills the world, if you don't understand it, it's the same as if it doesn't exist." ~ Lambdadelta

"You're always the main character of your own life, right? Why are you acting like a supporting actor? ...You have to move forward by yourself and get up on the stage." ~ Ushiromiya George

"I can't let go of the gun that protects my body. I can't let go of the gold that protects my future. But if I let go the hand of my daughter, who is my future...?!" ~ Ushiromiya Rosa

"If you won't be satisfied enough unless someone acknowledges you, that's the same as not acknowledging yourself.  ......The ultimate in self-fulfillment is acknowledging yourself." ~ Ushiromiya Ange

"Yeah, I forgot, marshmallows are what comes out of a girl's butt, ri~ght? So, Ange got sick, and the marshmallows turned into syrup." ~ Ushiromiya Battler

"With someone incompetent like you as the main character piece, the game wouldn't get anywhere." ~ Frederica Bernkastel

"This level of reasoning is possible for Furudo Erika. ......What do you think, everyone?" ~ Furudo Erika

"Next time you want to send a love letter, I suggest that you just write "I love you". ...If you make it too roundabout and confusing, no one's gonna be able to figure it out." ~ Ushiromiya Battler

"Without love it cannot be seen. ...Hah that's backwards. Because of love you end up seeing things that don't exist. Its nothing more than an illusion, one that no one except you can see, and one that even you cannot touch. Without love humans would never have to sift through truth and lies. Because we can see those, ...We doubt, we suffer, we cry out loud." ~ Furudo Erika

"You should stop being a witch and become a voice actress." ~ Bernkastel (to Lambdadelta)

"Once you've gained credibility, your forgeries will rise to the level of truth." ~ Ushiromiya Ange

"If children are sprouts, then parents are the sun! No plants will bud, and no flowers will bloom without the sun!!" ~ Neo-Beatrice

"Yeah, that's all. It's to escape from boredom. ...Because when we get bored, ...we remember. We remember that hell. ...And, you know,...by throwing someone else into that hell, ...we get to realize that, oh, we're the ones on the throwing side, ...and that means we aren't in that hell ourselves. If we don't keep doing that, ...then the fear of that hell will overwhelm us..." ~ Lambdadelta

"Love is an illusion. However, if both sides are seeing the same illusion, the love becomes true. However, when the feelings of each side are different... then it’s nothing more than a joke." ~ Clair vauxof Bernard

"Earth to earth. Illusions to illusions. ......When fiction is shut up inside a cat box, it becomes truth" ~ Willard H Wright (Fourth Game, Ninth Twilight)

"Don’t look for a miracle.... Be one!!" ~ Willard H Wright

"When they're alive, you can enjoy watching them struggle. When they're dead, you can enjoy tearing out their guts. Tales are things you get to enjoy twice." ~ Frederica Bernkastel

"By learning things, people change the way they live, but not always in a good direction. There are plenty of things in this world that you'll be more comfortable not knowing." ~ FURUDO ERIKA

"The truth is everything! The truth is justice!" ~ FURUDO ERIKA

Lambdadelta: "Hey, it's not good to eavesdrop!"
BATTLER: "I wasn't eavesdropping. It's written all over your face."
Lambdadelta: "No way! Where?! Hey, what's going on?! If you tell me it's written on ink that only morons can't see, then death, death, super death for you!!"


=== a conversation between Ushiromiya Ange and Mammon of Greed in Ep 4 ===

Mammon: "Ange-sama.  Do humans live so that they can be satisfied at the moment of their death?"
Ange: "......Wouldn't it be pretty tough if you were unsatisfied about something at the moment of your death?"
Mammon: "If so, then humans live only so that they can meet a satisfied death.  They live so that they can have a better death.  They live so that they can die."

............This kid's saying something pretty incredible.
...I see, as I'd expect from a demon stake.
However, that might be the truth.
Humans suffer because they aren't satisfied, and live only to be satisfied.

In other words, that might be the same as a desire to die while satisfied.
Ange: "I can't counter that.  ......People live in order to be satisfied.  And they hope to die while still satisfied.  So, not knowing how to make yourself become satisfied is very tough."
Mammon: "What can they do to become satisfied?  In a human's life."
Ange: ".........Being acknowledged.  Hearing 'you are happy'."
Mammon: "If it doesn't matter who acknowledges them, then I will do so."
Ange: "Yes, there's that.  .........People don't know who they should have acknowledge them."
Mammon: "So, searching for that person to acknowledge them is the journey of life?  Hmmmm."
Ange: "It sounds strange.  Whether you're acknowledged or not, it supposedly doesn't change your circumstances.  ......And yet, if you are acknowledged you will be satisfied, while if you aren't then you won't.  ...It's almost like the blue bird.  ......Because you can't notice the blue bird even though it's already in the cage, you have to go out on a journey searching everywhere."
Mammon: "What the heck.  Kyahhahaha.  Human lives sure are stupid."
Ange: "That's right.  Amakusa said something really good.  ......Rich is the one who is content with what they are...was it?  I don't know where that proverb came from, but it has a deep meaning.  ......In short, if you won't be satisfied enough unless someone acknowledges you, that's the same as not acknowledging yourself.  ......The ultimate in self-fulfillment is acknowledging yourself."

Mammon: "That's right.  Because if you can become aware that you are fully satisfied, there's no need to be acknowledged by anyone.  Just by taking notice of the small things, the humans' foolish journey of life can be ended easily.  You can spend the rest of your life playing and having a good time.  A human's life is so ridiculous, kyahhahahaha!"

Mammon's choice of words was bad, but it was surely the truth.

If most of a human's life is a journey where they wish that someone would acknowledge them, so that they could achieve a satisfied death...
.........Then when they realize that the person to acknowledge them is not someone else, but they themselves, that pointless journey can end.

Humans who have ended that journey can probably spend the rest of their lives as they wish with their chests stuck out.

......How sublime, how praiseworthy would that be.

Ange: "You know, it seems Amakusa's on pretty bad terms with his parents.  ......That makes sense.  He's in the kind of trade that'd have proper parents wanting to make him wash his hands of it."
Mammon: "Isn't that alright though?  As long as it's fun for the person in question."
Ange: ".........Exactly.  That's what it comes down to in the end.  Criticism of yourself as you're observed by others doesn't matter.  If your existence is firmly acknowledged by you yourself, that's enough.  ......If you can live with confidence in yourself, surely you can accept any kind of lifestyle.
I'm sure Amakusa will eventually eat a stray bullet on the battlefield and get seriously injured.  ...He might even die.  But I don't think Amakusa thinks that's unreasonable.  I'm sure he'd cackle about how that's also part of life."
Mammon: "What a great way to live.  I'm enchanted."
Ange: "......Pitiful humans who aren't acknowledged by themselves...wander about searching for that their whole lives, and without anything being accepted, they do nothing but grumble and die while still unsatisfied.  ......How pitiful.  Compared to people whose lives drag on without any purpose, Amakusa is more likely to eventually die by the roadside, but I think he's much more noble for living his life with his chest stuck out."
Mammon: "Aren't the winners in life those who achieve enlightenment?  If they can do that even a little sooner, they'll be able to live that much more of their life effectively."