A New Hamlet Quotes

“Forgive me. I didn’t mean to kill you, Polonius. The blade slipped out of the sheath, and it struck you.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“The true substance of love lies in the act of howling words of love with a desperation of a man jumping into the high seas.”
― Osamu Dazai, Yeni Bir Hamlet

“You takes things too seriously. It seems you’re not satisfied unless you always make yourself the protagonist in some tragedy.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Me? Are you kidding? I’m going to Hell.”
― Osamu Dazai, Yeni Bir Hamlet

“If my life could be of some use, I would offer it to anyone.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“I’m the fool who doesn’t know the limits of stupidity.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“He would never say something in the shadows that he cannot say directly to a person. If there is something he wants to say, he will always tell the person to their face. He was like that at the university, and he is like that now. That is why he is always losing out.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Yes, I know…I am always your friend.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“As long as you have the desire to be somebody, you will not fall into decadence. And you don’t have that kind of goal. You are passionate about wanting to see what it is like to fail.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“What you believe in is the pagan idol. God has words, as one would think. Think about it. The thing that first clearly alerted God’s presence to us was what? It was words. It was the Gospels.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Love is words. If words were to disappear, then love would be gone as well from this world in the very same instant. It’s a huge mistake to think that love can take shape in something other than language.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“It’s fine if you stammer while you say them. It could even be one word. You’ll see how words come out when you’re in a pinch.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“If you’re too timid to be able to say it, then it means that you are too concerned about yourself. You’re afraid to leap into the waves. If you really love someone, then the words of devotion will unconsciously slip out.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“But the true shape of love lies where one closes one’s eyes to the embarrassment of it, and as if jumping into surging waves, screams the words of love. In truth, one can only stay silent if one’s love is weak. It’s egotistical. They’re calculating something. They are quivering in fear about the responsibility that will come later.”
― Osamu Dazai, Yeni Bir Hamlet

“They feel confident that their love will be transmitted bit by bit to the person they love. The one who loves has the humble pride that the beloved will one day realize that they are loved, even if no words are uttered”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“There has never been a single example of love without words in the history of the world. To stay silent because you really love someone is proof of a terribly stubborn complacency.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Everyone loves you. You’re just asking for too much.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“The reason I can point out a person’s evil nature is because I have that same evil nature within me”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Lord Hamlet, maybe you alone are the evil one. You insert yourself where everyone is living peacefully and amicably, and you spout complex reasoning and attack everyone, making them suffer, saying that in this world only your love is pure and devoted.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Humans have a true desire to do good things. They live with the desire that other people will feel thankful to them”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“I can forgive the evil in a human being, but I cannot pardon the foolishness in him. Stupidity is the greatest sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“In this world, the more superficial, the more you will surely be loved:”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“It’s just that humans are made imperfect from the very beginning.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“But there are times when one man’s sense of justice may tear apart the peaceful domestic lives of other people.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“I stay kind to my friends and in the corner of my heart I’m always quietly thinking that ‘kindness to others always comes back to oneself,’ so I’m really a pathetic man.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Even if someone says nasty things about me, I don’t recognize their ill will toward me. I feel thankful that they are forcing themselves to say such difficult things for my sake.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Forget about all the women in the world. I can’t even deal with one girl next door and I’m in such pain I feel like I’m going to die. And never mind my superior capabilities—I don’t know the first thing about governing a kingdom. And as for people gazing at me in wonderment, well, all they do is deceive me. All that happens is they swindle me. I’m endlessly afraid of people. I am continually awed by them.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“I absentmindedly fantasize as I rest my chin in my hand. But in the end I can do nothing.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“Even if their faces turn pale, what kind of proof would that be? And on the other hand if they laugh with no concern at all, that doesn’t mean they’re not guilty. We could of course judge the sharpness or dullness of their senses, but we can’t judge their innocence.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet

“I’m never satisfied. I need stronger and stronger stimulation. But I’m a coward and a lazybones, so for the most part nothing happens beyond my imagining some excitement. I’m a speculator of the metaphysical. An adventurer only in my mind. A navigator within the reading room. In other words, I’m an insignificant dream-weaver.”
― Osamu Dazai, A New Hamlet