Love him or hate him, Sasuke Uchiha made Naruto a watchable experience for younger viewers to relate to. The idea that everyone loves a bad boy is tested when this edgy teen takes his first monologue in the series. Since he was such a dark teen, it is easy to see a little bit of ourselves in him.
Obviously, we didn’t have the power to shred people to bits with a Chidori, but honestly raise your hand if you tried. Because Sasuke was so edgy, he has had a lot of quotes that speak to his darker tone. From killing people to hating things, he made a lot of statements that wouldn’t be well-received today but got us to love him as a teen.
Updated on September 7th, 2020 by Josh Davison: Sasuke Uchiha was a complicated fixture for many a teenager who grew up with Naruto as part of their regular media diet. He was always such a jerk to Naruto and Sakura, but there was something undeniably cool about him. Heck, he learned Chidori, the signature ninjutsu of Kakashi Hatake, the coolest character in the entire series. A part of that certainly also came from Sasuke's edginess. He was so angry, his backstory was so tragic, and he just had so many feelings that he didn't know how to grapple with (and arguably still doesn't). These elements are a breeding ground for awesome edgy teenager quotes, and 10 doesn't begin to cover them all. With that in mind, here are another five edgy Sasuke quotes that will speak to your inner angsty teenager.
15 I Have Already Awakened
That's the full quote, and it speaks to something pretty primal in every teenager. You exist in this weird limbo where you're finally beginning to understand the world, but every adult in your life is still telling you that you're just a kid and don't really understand anything. The answer usually falls somewhere in the middle, as you are starting to get some degree of footing in the world but still have a long, long way to go.
14 If You Think I'm Just A Foolish Kid
"If you think I'm just a foolish kid ruled by his emotions, that's fine. Following Itachi's path would be childish, the whispering of fools who don't know hatred. If anyone else tries to ridicule the way I live, I'll slaughter everyone they ever cared about. And then maybe they'll understand what it's like to taste... a little of my hatred."
This one is a spectacular teenage quote. You have these roiling emotions that are almost certainly driving the majority of your actions, and, despite often being around other teenagers who are going through the same thing, you feel that your emotions have to be bigger and more intense than theirs. Furthermore, it goes along with the prior quote about awakening, as it opens up with something akin to "You don't know what I'm going through, dad!"
13 More Special Than You
"Naruto... I know you're special, but I am more special than you!"
This one almost needs no explanation. It's cringeworthy at best, but it still speaks to something primordial about being a teenager. You think your emotions, feelings, and thoughts are more true, authentic, and intense than anyone around you. It doesn't help that Sasuke is this miserable little kid who spends most of his time around this loud, boisterous, and beaming knucklehead with boundless energy in a very literal sense. Plus, Naruto is always talking about his destiny to become Hokage, and that would certainly get under your skin when all you want to do is sulk and kill your older brother.
12 I See. I Don't Understand Even One Of These Problems
This comes from the beginning of Sasuke taking the written portion of the Chunin Exams and has become a popular meme across the internet. While it's actually a revelation for Sasuke, it's still intensely relatable for a teenager going through the struggles of high school. It applies internally and externally too. You don't understand any of your problems, your friends' problems, these math problems, the world's problems. You don't understand any problems. You just don't understand!
11 If That's How It Is, I'll Just Have To Sever That Bond
Almost every teenager had some falling out with a friend or romantic partner that felt like some kind of epic conclusion to a once-important bond. You probably screamed, yelled, cried, or at least sent a very emotional text message or email. Here, Sasuke is battling Naruto in the Final Valley at the conclusion of Part 1 before leaving to join Orochimaru. Naruto has fought so hard to keep Sasuke around, but Sasuke just wants to leave and find his destiny with the aggressive snake man. Naruto thinks he and Sasuke have this bone-deep bond that will always keep them together, but Sasuke is sick of it and Naruto. So, he just has to sever that bond. Most of us probably didn't experience this exact situation as a teen, but we all almost certainly had to sever a bond or two.
10 My Name Is Sasuke
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things, and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan and kill a certain someone."
This is one of the first lines from Sasuke and it reeks of the desperation and edginess that we all strived for during our emo years. The whole second sentence is something that was said by every teen who strongly identified with Sasuke and Light Yagami from Death Note when they were just getting into anime. While this was the beginning, Sasuke ended up even edgier as time went on.
9 Tears
"Tears and rain, fall down on my face, my body is unable to stay yet my heart is unwilling to leave."
This quote sounds like the type of poetry that was written directly after a break up as a teen. It sounds like it is deep and meaningful, but just like his personality, Sasuke’s words are no more than surface-level thoughts. Change is a difficult thing for many, so when Sasuke gave the perfect line for expressing our hidden emotions, we immediately used it for our status updates. If Sasuke had to go through the looking back on his childhood phase many of us have had to do, he’d cringe at lines like this.
8 Naruto
"Just shut up for once! What the hell do you know about it?! It's not like you ever had a family in the first place! You were on your own right from the beginning, what makes you think you know anything about it?! Huh?! I'm suffering now because I had those ties, how on Earth could you possibly understand, what it feels like to lose all that?!"
Teens certainly have a way of making all their feelings exclusive to themselves and Sasuke is no exception. While he is technically correct about Naruto, he also makes the same assumption about knowing suffering. Their whole fight plays out like teens who have just broken off their friendship and are dealing with the fallout.
7 Sakura
"Was she having fun in her little make-believe fantasy of true love? As for me, I have absolutely no reason to love her and likewise, I can see no reason why she would love me."
There is an inherent edginess about self-loathing that can be attractive. Sasuke is quiet and smart, which draws a lot of attention from his female cohorts in the village. However, he is full of himself and doesn’t want to understand her feelings. It is easier to ignore and disregard feeling, both about other people and about yourself, than to address them properly. That is probably why Sasuke and Sakura end up married because they both grow as people over the course of the series.
6 Dream
“My dream doesn’t exist in the future. It lies in the past. That’s the only place it exists.”
The past being a catalyst for all of the good and bad in your life is a common edgy thing to talk about because it excuses things that you don’t like in the present. While it is important to look at the past, dwelling there can keep you in a spiral. This happens to Sasuke because, even when it seems he is moving forward, he has a habit of going back to when he believed he was happier, even if it wasn’t true.
5 Darkness
"I have long since closed my eyes... My only goal is in the darkness."
Is there anything edgier than saying the only goal is darkness? Sasuke clearly has a habit of speaking poetically, but when he has lines like this, it is so hard to not just scream out and say, “Then just open your eyes!” Understanding the irony of someone whose power is literally their eyes talking about closing them, it is still apparent that Sasuke knows himself well enough that he could correct his darkness filled path. He is stubborn and determined, which makes teenagers so much more difficult, especially when they have superpowers.
4 Village
“Naruto... it's too late, nothing you can say will change me! I'm going to kill you and every last person in your beloved village! It's time to make your choice! Kill me and become a hero, or die at my hand and become another one of my victims!”
This is quoting the “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain” line from The Dark Knight but making it edgier and filled with angst. While a normal person saying this would be cause for concern, since it is a world full of ninjas that can control the elements, it is more of a possibility.
3 Laughter
"They're all laughing. You're laughing at the cost of Itachi's life laughing together completely ignorant of everything. Your laughing voices sound like contempt and mocking me now, I will change those laughs to screams and wails."
If you didn’t think there would be a deeply sad quote in this list of edginess and angst, you were sadly mistaken. There are so many types of edgy lines that have been attributed to Sasuke, but this one is darker than most of the others. Instead of being cool and calm, this line is said with a ferocity of a teen who has been pushed too far. It is sadly the most realistic line he says and it would be tragic in other contexts.
2 Die
“Like I’d die… I won’t die… The reason Itachi lived for… I can’t… I won’t… let it end here… To make a true village… so I can show them… what a true Kage is! I refuse to die!”
While the secondary trait for emo culture is basically about wanting to die, the other side of that coin is the idea of never being able to die. While someone might joke about dying to be edgy, it is also normal to hear them announcing that they refuse to die. Sasuke has no problem toeing this line between challenging death and never having to face it down. He is literally on the edge of both constantly.
1 Avenger
"I understand now. Even if I must take the devil's fruit, I must gain power. I am an avenger."
We all thought we understood life and its intricacies as teens, only to realize that most of us had no clue what we were talking about. Sasuke is the same way. He is so sure of himself at the various points of his life that viewers get to see, but each time he moves forward on that assumption, he lands back at square one. Unlike The Avengers, Sasuke also takes the definition of the word at face value. Outside of the One Piece connection, taking the devil’s fruit is such an edgy thing to say, it is surprising Sasuke didn’t cut his lips with those words.