Happy Birthday Dazai Osamu-sensei!
Dazai Osamu is by far the author with the most quotes on my blog, so to celebrate his birthday here are his top ten quotes:
Quote #10:
“It seems you’re not satisfied unless you always make yourself the protagonist in some tragedy.”
- Dazai Osamu, “A New Hamlet”
Quote #9:
“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
- Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human
Quote #8:
“Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others.”
- Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human pg. 158
Quote #7:
“No one realized that I had become insane; when I recovered nobody could tell the difference.”
- Dazai Osamu, “Toys” from Dazai Osamu: Selected Stories and Sketches
Quote #6:
“I was depressed… At such times I always sought refuge in a bookstore. There was one close by, and I hurried there now. Just to see all the books lining the shelves would lighten my mood as if by magic… I went because any book gave me comfort and solace at the time.”
- Dazai Osamu, “Memories”
Quote #5:
“Human beings must suffer through their entire lives amid the love and hate that rule their world. There is no escape. All you can do is endure. Endure and struggle, struggle and endure.”
- Dazai Osamu, “Blue Bamboo” from Blue Bamboo and Other Stories
Quote #4:
“As for love … no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.”
- Dazai Osamu, The Setting Sun
Quote #3:
“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing 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.”
- Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human pg. 169
Quote #2:
“Grown-ups are lonely people. Even if we love each other, we must be careful not to show it publicly. And why all this caution? The answer is simple: because people are too often betrayed and put to public shame. The discovery that you cannot trust people is the first lesson young people learn as they grow up into adults. Adults are adolescents who have been betrayed.”
- Dazai Osamu, Tsugaru
Quote #1:
“I was a flower petal about to fall. I trembled and quivered at the slightest breeze; at the slightest insult, I writhed about and considered dying.”
- Dazai Osamu, “Recollections” from The Saga of Dazai Osamu
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Happy Birthday Dazai Osamu-sensei!
To celebrate Dazai Osamu’s birthday here are his top three quotes from my blog:
Quote #3:
“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing 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.”
- Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human pg. 169
Quote #2:
“As for love … no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.”
- Dazai Osamu, The Setting Sun
Quote #1:
“I was a flower petal about to fall. I trembled and quivered at the slightest breeze; at the slightest insult, I writhed about and considered dying.”
- Dazai Osamu, “Recollections” from The Saga of Dazai Osamu
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Here's the thing.
Akutagawa wears Dazai's coat, and to me, that is a physical representation of the darkness Akutagawa inherited from him. The chains that Dazai freed himself from by leaving the mafia, but also the ones he placed on Akutagawa. That same darkness that Akutagawa shoulders much better than Dazai ever did; he doesn't get lost inside it, and it doesn't swallow him alive, because if Akutagawa is anything, he is a survivor. He has an indomitable spirit; even as life has done its best to beat him down and keep him there, Akutagawa has come right back up, fierce and teeth baring.
But here's the thing...when he fought in that boat, when he outdid a man who literally could manipulate time and space in order to save Atsushi–
Akutagawa was only in his white dress shirt. He fought to the best of his ability, making his own decisions about his fate, and that particular decision was to protect the life of his rival. It was to sacrifice himself to do this one good thing.
No mission. No obligation. No mistake.
There was no coat. No chains. Only him.
Only the person he truly is.
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