Quotes from Osamu Dazai

I was cured by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. (...) Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren su horrenda naturaleza.

It was her love which gave me the strength to make all the rest of the calls, this time without once weeping.

I find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can live, purely, happily, serenely while engaged in deceit. Human beings never did teach me that abstruse secret.

When you come face to face with absolute reliability, you tend, first of all, to burst into silly laughter. You just come all undone. It's like-this is a funny way to put it, I know, but it's like chuckling with relief after loosening your belt. Young men, if ever the one you love bursts out laughing the moment she sees you, you are to be congratulated. By no means must you reproach her. She has merely been overwhelmed by the absolute reliability she senses in you.

Poverty is nothing. As long as you love me, all I want is to spend my whole life by your side.

The likable weeds and the not likable weeds looked exactly the same but were somehow clearly divided into those that seemed innocuous and those that seemed horrible. It didn't stand to reason. What a girl likes and what she hates seems rather arbitrary to me.

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

era distinta a la sonrisa de un ser humano. ¿Cómo decirlo? Le faltaba el peso de la sangre, la aspereza de la vida. No producía el efecto de tener sustancia; no tenía ni el peso de un pájaro, apenas el de una pluma. Era una simple hoja de papel blanco con una sonrisa por completo artificial.

To tell the truth, when I first came to the city, I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theatre for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

Those days, as I remember them now, were the last in which the dying embers of happiness still glowed.

Life is not some kind of play!

All of us say such things when we're at our wit's end! We're all doing our best to survive.

Yaln?zca birilerinin bana bir ?eyler ?smarlamas? dü?üncesi kar??s?nda deh?ete kap?l?yorum. Özellikle, o ki?inin kendi eme?iyle kazand??? paray? benim keyfim için harcamas? bana ac? veren, içimi daraltan dayan?lmaz bir durum.

When I acted like a rich man, they started a rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering.

Ces expressions: « Être aimé », « être adoré », étaient dans mon cas absolument impropres ; « un être dont on s'occupe » eût été beaucoup plus approprié à moi.

I live solely on my writing now. On signing the registers at inns when I travel, I have no hesitation about listing "writer" as my occupation. If I suffer, I don't talk much about it much. I may suffer even more than before, but I wear a smile.

I've become a man who can't say a single bad thing about anybody. I'm a coward—timid whenever I meet someone.

Sei que as pessoas gostam de mim, apenas me falta a capacidade de amar alguém. (Embora eu tenha minhas dúvidas se os seres humanos, em geral, têm essa capacidade de "amar".)

Men are strange creatures. Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat everybody at everything?

Suffering breeds suffering, and sighs draw only more sighs from within.

I learned to read silently too. That's why I could finish one book after another without getting tired.

I tell you, those shit-eating bastards, with their primping and posing and pompous speeches, have gone and destroyed the whole country. If they'd all been timid, bashful little fellows, we wouldn't be in this mess today.

Next, don't fail. I don't mind if you cheat, but just do not fail. If you fail, it will be a blemish upon your name for your entire life.