Quotes from Osamu Dazai

Tôi ?ã s?ng m?t cu?c ??i ??y h? th?n.

I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had deliberately missed the bar, but that Takeichi should have been the one came as a bolt from the blue. I felt as if I had seen the world before me burst in an instant into the raging flames of hell. It was all I could do to suppress a wild shriek of terror.

A partir de entonces entendí de que la llamada sociedad era el individuo. Y con esta idea, fui capaz de comportarme más de acuerdo con mi propia voluntad.

Of late a gloomy rain has been falling almost incessantly. Whatever I do depresses me.

Podría ser la confianza pura una fuente de delito?

Women found in me a man who could keep could keep a love secret.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind- of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough), any wounds being inflicted of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

I find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can life, purely, happily, serenely while engaged in deceit.

People also talk of a criminal consciousness All my life in this world of human beings I have been tortured by such a consciousness, but it has been my faithful companion, like a wife in poverty, and together, just the two of us, we have indulged in our forlorn pleasures.

My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I have 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.

Regardless of the cause, those in charge always seemed to be seeking power and glory for themselves.

Ta??d??? yafta m?? E?lenceli bir deyi?. Yafta ta??yorsa daha az tehlikeli de?il mi ? Boynunda ç?ng?rak ta??yan bir kedi yavrusu gibi tatl? görünüyor. Yaftas?z sefahat, daha ürkütücü.

These wounds, unlike the scars from the lashing a man might give, cut inwards very deep, like an internal hemorrhage, bringing intense discomfort.

They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.

A leader pompously voices his own views without the least hesitation. Do as I say, he proclaims. Then you, as well as your family and your village and your country and the whole world too will be secure. Gesturing grandly, he roars on about how disaster will come from ignoring him. But then, as has happened time after time, his favorite prostitute gives him the cold shoulder, and this makes him cry out desperately for the abolition of her kind.

To fall for", "to be fallen for"- I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.

It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business is to be fallen for" by more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.

I believed that the gloom of our daily lives could not be dispelled, no matter how much one declaimed about society and politics.

They were of overpowering fear, not the terror the sight of ghosts in a graveyard might arouse, but rather a fierce ancestral dread that could not be expressed in four or five words, something perhaps like encountering in the sacred grove of a Shinto shrine the white-clothed body of the god.

Mi idea de alguien respetado consistía en una persona que había logrado engañar casi a la perfección a los demás pero que, al ser visto por un ser omnisciente e omnipotente, era humillado en una vergüenza peor que la muerte.

Las personas se engañan unas a otras del modo más natural y, sorprendentemente, sin resultar lastimadas.

What superficiality- and what stupidity- there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest on things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.

I felt so grateful, so happy for that gentle smile that I averted my face and wept. I was completely shattered and smothered by that one gentle smile.