263 Quotes by Osamu Dazai

Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's pain.

Horiki mostraba hacia los objetos de su casa una posesividad que alcanzaba hasta los cordones del cojín. Pensándolo después, a Horiki no le había costado ni un céntimo el divertirse conmigo.

Existe la palabra «marginados», que denota a los infelices, a los fracasados y a los descarriados en la sociedad humana; pero yo creo que lo soy desde el momento en que nací. Por eso, cuando me cruzo con alguien calificado de «marginado», de inmediato siento afecto por él. Un afecto que llena todo mi cuerpo de un arrobamiento de ternura.

A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.

Reippaasti eteenpäin, älkää menettäkö toivoa.

During the course of my life I have wished innumerable times that I might meet with a violent death, but I have never once desired to kill anybody. I thought that in killing a dreaded adversary I might actually be bringing him happiness.

Women sleep so soundly they seem to be dead. Who knows? Women may live in order to sleep.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.

I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person’s heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity.