Blue Bamboo Quotes

“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.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“No. You won't do. You've treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It made me feel so lonely, somehow... I'm really just a foolish and useless person.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's pain.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“You’ve treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It’s made me feel so lonely, somehow.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“A life free of lies! Ah, but that, too, was, by definition, a lie. Surely a lie already dwelled in the heart of anyone who sought to make such distinctions and stand in judgment.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“I have suffered much at the hands of human society. Forgive me if I seem overly suspicious.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“One lies to seek a bit of relief from a ponderous, suffocating reality, but the liar, like the drinker, gradually comes to need larger and larger doses. The lies become blacker and more complex, and they mesh and rub together until in the end they shine with the luster of truth.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“It seems that when people are in a state of euphoria, they don’t always notice the suffering of others.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Even if one is not “qualified to be loved,” one is eternally “qualified to love.” To seek only the joy of being adored is to surrender to savagery and ignorance.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu

“It seems, regrettably, that not even genius can overcome the debilitating effects of a mild fever.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“The five brothers and sisters, and I myself, have gradually grown more adult, more polite, more guarded—have become, in short, “members of society”—and when we do on occasion meet, it’s not the least bit fun.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“I’ve been subjected to ridicule and derision every day of my life. In spite of which, did I not take courage and boldly present myself at that examination? Yes! Only to fail miserably... In a world like this, where the brazen, the shameless, the evil-hearted alone prosper, a weak and penniless scholar like myself is destined forever to be a failure and a laughingstock.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Poverty and scholarship have always gone hand in hand, it seems, and one can’t help but wonder why that might be.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“death was one thing but he couldn’t bear the thought of letting good wine go to waste”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“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”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Yalansız bir hayat. Bu cümle zaten bir yalandı.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Without mutual respect, there can be no true nuptial bond.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“There was in his nature a tendency to display a taste for fairness and justice—not the “fairness and justice” that politicians are forever carrying on about, but fairness and justice in the true, original sense of the words. As a consequence, the people of Mishima regarded him as a troublemaker and kept their distance.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“The recognition of any reality begins with trust.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“When one’s life begins to unravel, one is tempted, sadly enough, to cling to the thread of prophecy.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“The problem with tradition is that it can cause even an error of great magnitude to go unnoticed”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Poverty and scholarship, it would seem, have always gone hand in hand, and one can't help but wonder why that should be.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“İnsanlar sevinçli anlarında başkalarının acılarını fark edemezler değil mi?”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Hüzünlü birini hüzünlü şarkılar teselli eder.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Çok iyi olmanın cezası vardır.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Gerçekliğin onayı güvenden gelir ve güven kişinin kalbindeki sevgiden kaynaklanır.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Dünyanın her yerinde hepimiz için yer vardır ve nerede insanlar varsa, orada cenaze törenleri vardır.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy