Exploring the Depth and Wisdom: Best Quotes by Osamu Dazai
To die is easy; it’s living that’s difficult.
Pain is always equidistant, no matter where you are.
The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on happiness.
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
The human heart is like the reflection on the surface of water. The mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels.
People talk of fate as if it is something tangible, but in reality, it?s just an ideal that humans conceived.
In this world, there are no beginnings or endings.
I believe in the power of wishing. I believe it has the power to shape our world.
Life is a series of choices. Make yours before it’s taken away from you.
Life is a constant process of dying.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
I am a coward who has refused to examine his past, while daring to expect a fulfilling future.
It?s far simpler to live constantly seeking out distractions, than allowing oneself to face existing.
It’s better to be hurt than to hurt others. Nice people really are the scariest.
We are aware of the grandeur of dying?the radiance of erasing your own existence.
Too aware of the emptiness of love, and too frightened to carry the cross of hope.
If you don’t talk about your thoughts, no one will know they existed.
It is a mistake to divide people into the living and the dead; there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive.
Only in darkness can one see the true nature of light.
We human beings do not understand even the ordinary things before our eyes and yet take so much on trust.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else.
I don?t want to be a genius, nor a saint. I only want to be a man just like everybody else.
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
The weaker the man, the more he desires things in others.
We, not knowing what to do with our lives, wallow in nostalgia for a past we had no part in.
I cannot understand those strong people who die of no apparent reason. Man, if he is a man, doesn’t die until he?s killed by somebody, by something.
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
Given the freedom to create, the human spirit is a fearsome force.
People talk of ?social outcasts.? The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a ?social outcast? from the moment I was born.
I don’t want anyone’s pity. Maybe everybody in the world wants to be pitied and excused by others.
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It’s more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted.
I am a coward. That’s why I value kindness. I know the fear hidden in the heart of kindness.
No longer human, this is what I am, only a desire, a longing.
The real world was in reality far smaller and far simpler than everyone thought.
A normal man, given the chance to attain the eternal life, they’d probably go mad.
Life is a constant process of dying.
I am a child of my era, the era when, for no particular reason, you carry on.
Exposing the ugliness of the world is a joyous affair.
From the stillness came the birth of all movement.
I don’t have the energy to be the one who loves the most.
If I can’t be beautiful, it’s fine. I’ll just become a stone in a graveyard.
In the face of suffering, there’s no need for explanations or superfluous words.
Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
The human heart can neither be created nor destroyed by human hands.
A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Desperately desiring to remedy their individuality, people surround themselves with others.
To wait for someone is equivalent to relying on them.
Being alone soothes me. Solitude is not the same as loneliness.
I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people aren’t aware that I am more than what they see.
It is useless to talk about what you don’t understand.
Life can’t be as bad as it seems because it constantly moves forward.