Osamu Dazai: Quotes about happiness

Osamu Dazai was Japanese author. Explore interesting quotes on happiness.

Osamu Dazai: 78 quotes230 likes

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part Two
Source: No Longer Human

“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

Third Notebook: Part One
Source: No Longer Human

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

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“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.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“The weak fear happiness itself.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.”

Source: Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy