The Best Demon Slayer Quotes, Manga and Anime

Demon Slayer has no Wikiquote page, so its lines have to be checked some other way, and on this site they are checked two ways. Six of the ten below come from VIZ's English edition of the manga, read page by page through its first three chapters, where a charcoal seller loses his family, his sister turns, and two adults decide what he is allowed to do about it. The other four are anime lines, each resting on an editorial outlet that printed it. Each blurb says which kind it is. The manga lines are the more precise, since they carry page numbers; the anime lines are the ones the quote lists pass around. None of the ten is marked as a spoiler, and each links to the fuller commentary on the speaker's page.

“I'll find a way! I swear! Please don't kill her! I'll also find the one that killed my family! I'll do all that, so... ...so...” — Tanjiro Kamado

Manga, chapter 1. Two jobs are named, a cure and a killer, and neither comes with a method; the stammer at the end is where a plan would go, and on the next page he puts his forehead in the snow instead. Neither job is becoming a swordsman, which is what Giyu's letter in chapter 3 reports he wants.

“If you want something... ...you must fight for it! The meek have no power and no options! The strong will crush them in every way!” — Giyu Tomioka

Manga, chapter 1, shouted in balloons three pages later. The chapter half agrees: Tanjiro does fight, and the hatchet he throws from cover earns a grudging “this kid.” What the speech leaves out is who decides. Fighting buys the boy a hearing, and the result is handed down by the man who knocked him flat.

“Fill your heart with anger. Strong, pure anger... ...that gives no quarter. Anger that becomes the unwavering force that drives your limbs.” — Giyu Tomioka

Manga, chapter 1 again, and not said aloud: VIZ letters it in caption boxes as Giyu's thoughts. The shouting was a method and this is its aim, grief converted into something that moves the limbs. Of the three registers the early chapters give Giyu, balloons, captions and a letter, the only one that prescribes anger is the one Tanjiro never hears.

“But... ...if I don't kill him, he'll attack more people. So I have to do this.” — Tanjiro Kamado

Manga, chapter 2, said as the blade comes out, and it takes a stranger's hand on his wrist and the news that the weapon will not work to stop him. Urokodaki later judges that kindness keeps this boy from decisive action. This page has the decision made, with its reason attached; what slows him afterward is the method, and preferring a clean kill to a cruel one is an odd thing to call indecision.

“When your sister eats someone, there are two things you have to do... Kill your sister... then slit your own belly and die! That is what it means to travel with your sister who has become a demon!” — Sakonji Urokodaki

Manga, chapter 3, from a masked stranger who has just slapped him. Monstrous as stated, and still the first terms in these chapters with a price attached: Giyu wanted her head at once, and Tanjiro's own promise had nothing behind it. This one pledges the brother's life against the sister's conduct, which makes it a deterrent, and it is aimed at him.

“Instead, I use that money... ...to give the younger kids plenty to eat.” — Nezuko Kamado

Manga, chapter 3, remembered in a flashback lettered white on black with no balloons, so the attribution rests on context: the first person, the question it answers and the close-up it sits on, all set out in the row. Tanjiro's caption sums up her life as suffering. Her own words, about a kimono she would rather keep mending, describe a decision, and the beautiful kimono he vows to buy her answers a want she had already turned down.

“You have to go on. No matter what. In spite of losing people... even though it's devastating.” — Tanjiro Kamado

Anime, episodes 6 and 7, to Kazumi at the end of Tanjiro's first assignment, with the demon dead and the woman it took still gone. The sentence is not especially good. It lands because the speaker lost his mother and four siblings in one night, and the man he is talking to can hear that the advice has already been paid for.

“Don't ever give up. Even if it's painful, even if it's agonizing, don't try to take the easy way out.” — Zenitsu Agatsuma

The dissent. Anime, episode 17 by Game Rant's account, on Mount Natagumo: poisoned, he says it to himself and slows the venom with his own breathing. The scene is his bravest, and this is the Zenitsu line that circulates, which is a pity, because the sentence would fit any shonen lead with the name changed. The next line is the specific, less comfortable material it crowds out.

“Clearly Gramps did smack me around a bit too much. But he never abandoned me.” — Zenitsu Agatsuma

Anime, looking back on his master Jigoro Kuwajima; Game Rant gives no episode. The joke and the thesis share one sentence, and the second half carries it. A boy who announces his own uselessness before anyone else can is expecting to be dropped, so the largest compliment available to him is being paid to a man who hit him, and the series does not raise the bar on his behalf.

“I'm the King of Mountains, it's a pleasure to meet you... God of Festivals.” — Inosuke Hashibira

Anime, Entertainment District arc, answering Tengen Uzui, who has just introduced himself as the God of Festivals. Inosuke matches the title, declines the hierarchy and attempts a formal courtesy he has plainly learned by imitation, all in one breath. It is the series joking about the thing it is otherwise serious about, which is children being handed ranks and adult work.

One absence is deliberate. Rengoku's line about setting your heart ablaze is not here because no row on this site holds it: four trusted sources give four different renderings of the moment, and one of them does not contain the phrase at all. That he says it is not in doubt. Which sentence he says is, and this list will not pick one. The fact-check sets out all four versions; it covers the end of the Mugen Train arc, so treat it as a spoiler.

Every line here sits with its commentary on the Demon Slayer quote page. The order to watch the seasons and films in, including where the Mugen Train film and its television version overlap, is on the watch order, and whether the English dub is worth taking is on sub or dub. How each quote on this site is checked is at our verification notes.