“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.”
Source: No Longer Human
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Osamu Dazai39
Japanese author 1909–1948Related quotes
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Doina Ruști (1957) Romanian Writer
Source: The Phanariot Manuscript https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscrisul_fanariot
“.. that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.”
James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.”
Arsène Houssaye (1814–1896) French writer
Source: James O'Donnell Bennett (1908) When Good Fellows Get Together, p. 156
Stendhal book The Charterhouse of Parma
Quand je devrais acheter cette vie de délices et cette chance unique de bonheur par quelques petits dangers, où serait le mal? Et ne serait-ce pas encore un bonheur que de trouver ainsi une faible occasion de lui donner une preuve de mon amour?
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 20