Spoiler — from the ending. Tap to reveal.
“When a man learns to feel love, he must also bear the risk of feeling hate.”
Obito Uchiha Quotes
2 quotes from Naruto, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
Read the character analysis and its source limits
The boy who told Kakashi that comrades matter more than rules and was then crushed in a landslide, and the man who spent the years afterwards demonstrating the opposite. Obito's two halves are the same person, which is the uncomfortable thing about him: nothing was substituted, and one death rearranged everything that followed.
Spoiler — from the ending. Tap to reveal.
“I'm about to die. I'll be your eye, keeping watch over what the future brings you.”
Crushed under rock, giving away a Sharingan as a promotion present, and the wording is what makes it terrible later. He does not say remember me. He says he will be the eye, present tense, an arrangement rather than a keepsake. Kakashi takes it literally for years: he wears the eye, he covers it when not fighting. Then the arrangement turns out to be true in a way neither of them meant, because Obito does not die, and what he watches the future bring is a former teammate he decides is beneath contempt. The line is usually read as the series' most generous death. It is also the moment a character hands another character a surveillance device and both of them agree to call it love. Every scene the two share afterward is a negotiation over which of those two readings the sentence was.
About Obito Uchiha
Guides
Around Naruto
More from Naruto
Read Obito Uchiha's story from the start
Explore Naruto in book form. Check the listing for the edition, language and volumes included. The source beside each quote records where its wording was checked; it may differ from the wording in this edition.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page are affiliate links, which cost you nothing extra. They never influence what appears on this site or what the commentary says about it.
A fortune cookie unless you know whose causal chain runs through it, and by this point the series has built two. Obito is answering Sasuke, who has just said Itachi's life mattered more to him than the Hidden Leaf, and he is describing himself without saying so: a boy who loved one person, watched her die on his rival's arm, and converted that into a scheme to end reality. What keeps the sentence from being a platitude is the word risk, which frames attachment as an exposure rather than a virtue, and that is a genuine position rather than a warm one. It is also the position the entire war is fought to refute, which means the villain's thesis is stated in one line very early and the rest of the series is the counterargument.