Quotes from Osamu Dazai

Everyone loves you. You're just asking for too much.

There has never been a single example of love without words in the history of the world. To stay silent because you really love someone is proof of a terribly stubborn complacency.

They feel confident that their love will be transmitted bit by bit to the person they love. The one who loves has the humble pride that the beloved will one day realize that they are loved, even if no words are uttered

The older and wiser heads of the world have always described revolution and love to us as the two most foolish loathsome of human activities.

What superficiality - and what stupidity - there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty.

But the true shape of love lies where one closes one's eyes to the embarrassment of it, and as if jumping into surging waves, screams the words of love. In truth, one can only stay silent if one's love is weak. It's egotistical. They're calculating something. They are quivering in fear about the responsibility that will come later.

This who wish to go on living can always manage to survive whatever obstacles there may be. That is splendid of them, and I dare say that what people call the glory of mankind is comprised of just such a thing. But I am convinced that dying is not a sin.

If you're too timid to be able to say it, then it means that you are too concerned about yourself. You're afraid to leap into the waves. If you really love someone, then the words of devotion will unconsciously slip out.

They were happy, the two of them. I'd been a fool to come between them. I might destroy them both if I were not careful. A humble happiness. A good mother and a child. God, I thought, if you listen to the prayer of people like myself, grant me happiness once, only once in my whole lifetime will be enough! Hear my prayer!) I felt like getting down on my knees to pray then and there. I shut the door softly, went to the Ginza, and did not return to the apartment.

It's fine if you stammer while you say them. It could even be one word. You'll see how words come out when you're in a pinch.

Love is words. If words were to disappear, then love would be gone as well from this world in the very same instant. It's a huge mistake to think that love can take shape in something other than language.

What you believe in is the pagan idol. God has words, as one would think. Think about it. The thing that first clearly alerted God's presence to us was what? It was words. It was the Gospels.

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

I claim I could write were I not ashamed. There's something fundamentally cheap about such awareness of genius. Only a madman would read a novel with deference. In that case it had best be done in formal clothes, like going to a funeral. So long as it does not seem as affected as a good work!

This novel was doomed from the start. All posture and no substance. Whether I write one page or a hundred, it amounts to the same thing. Though I knew this from the start.

The recognition of any reality begins with trust. And the source of all trust is love for one's fellow man. - The Mermaid and the Samurai

He's all right. Naoji's all right. Scoundrels like Naoji simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people.

Burada bir insan evlad? ya??yor.

Nihayetinde, ya?amakta oldu?una göre, mutlaka bir hilen vard?r.

Poverty and scholarship, it would seem, have always gone hand in hand, and one can't help but wonder why that should be.

At that same moment, I became convinced that somewhere another sad and pitiful girl was doing the wash and smiling softly at this very moon.

Welcome to Sadness. Population one.

We will live in perpetual struggle with the old morality, like the sun.

It may require courage to say what they said, but were they really able to take responsibility for the consequences?