Quotes – Parasyte The Maxim/Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu 

My collection of Quotes from the Anime ‘Parasyte the maxim’ –  

# “Human life is precious isn’t it?” – Izumi Shinichi (Epi 2)

# “Shinichi, upon researching the concept of demons, I believe that, among all life, humans are the closest thing to it. Although humans kill and eat a wide variety of life forms, my kind eat merely one or two kinds at most. We are quite frugal in comparison.”- Migi (Epi 2)

# “Maybe humans are the closest thing to demons alive.” – Izumi Shinichi (Epi 2)

# “You sacrifice other lives so that your own live can continue. That is how animals live. Humans are one-of-a kind creatures that commit suicide.” – Migi (Epi 3)

# “Why are humans so irrational.” – Ryoko Tamiya (Epi 3)

# “Flies know how to fly without being taught. Spiders know how to spin webs without being taught. Why is that? Here’s what I think: Flies and spiders are simply following an order. I believe all lives on Earth have received orders of some kind. Don’t humans have any directive? When I took over this human’s brain, I received a directive. It said, Devour this species.” – Ryoko Tamiya (Epi 3)

# “There are times humans can’t back down from a  fight.” – Izumi Shinichi

# “It hurts soo much … I can barely speak from the grief, yet I have no tears.” – Izumi Shinichi

# “I cant cry anymore. I feel like I’ve lost something. An important part of human being. I wonder if something’s wrong with my heart.” – Izumi Shinichi

# “Man has become toxic to earth, and there was a need for a neutralizer.” 

# “You shouldn’t mouth off when you don’t know shit.” – Shinichi Izumi

# “If talking won’t resolve matters, maybe inflicting some pain will.” – Shinichi Izumi

# “May be Izumi-kun hasn’t really come back since he left on that trip” – Murano Satomi

# “My blood is still red … for now…” – Shinichi Izumi (Epi 12)

# “If you have the right to live, so do we. Granted, I believe rights are a concept unique to the human species.” – Migi (Epi 14)

# “And here I thought nothing could possibly surprise me anymore.” – Shinichi Izumi

# “You all underestimate humans. Individually, they may appear weak, but that is not the case. What we need to recognize is that humans are a single life-form comprised of millions of individuals. Besides their individual brains, humans possess a different “brain” of enormous magnitude. The moment we act in opposition to that brain, we will lose.” – Tamura Reiko

# “I’ve been thinking… for a long while. For what purpose was I born into this world? Whenever I resolved one question, another would arise in its place. I sought the beginning. I sought the end. I’ve just been walking and walking, thinking all the while. Perhaps nothing will change, no matter how far I go. If I’m to stop my journey, that is fine, too. Even if I were informed that everything has reached its end, I’d just accept it. But even so, I found an answer to yet another of my questions today.” – Tamura Reiko

# “I have also done much research on humans. What are parasites for humans and what are humans to us? My conclusion is this: we are two halves of the same whole. We and humans are one family. We are the children of the human race.” – Tamura Reiko (Epi 18)

# “When you feel your life’s on the line, your true nature surfaces.” – Shinichi Izumi

# “In the end, I couldn’t see things from the parasites’ perspective, never mind from Migi’s. Of course not. It wasn’t possible from the beginning.” – Shinichi Izumi

# “As two different species, we may at times take advantage of each other and kill each other, but it’s impossible to understand each other. Actually, you shouldn’t even think that you’ve figured out another species based on your standards. I think it’s human arrogance to think we understand how other life forms feel.” – Shinichi Izumi

# “There may be no other life forms that are truly a “friend” to man. Still, even if we can’t comprehend them, they are, without a doubt, neighbors deserving of our respect.” – Shinichi Izumi

# “We protect other species because humans themselves are lonely creatures. We protect the environment because humans themselves don’t want to go extinct. What drives us is simply self-gratification. But I think that’s fine, and that it’s really all there is to it. There’s no point in despising humans by human standards. That’s right. So in the end, it’s hypocritical for us to love Earth without loving ourselves.” – Shinichi Izumi

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