Osamu Dazai Quotes

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes his head as he ponders ...

I yearned for everything long gone.

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, a...

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which ...

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrifi...

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggerati...

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I...

Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it mean...

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, trul...

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretc...

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is ...

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding...

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idi...

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent...

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they becom...

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never sa...

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by ...

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that ro...

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering beh...

I wonder if I have ever actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remem...

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somew...

The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain...

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combinati...

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole bo...

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud ...

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be ...

Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, decla...

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosoph...

In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. ...

I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From no...

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happi...

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know ho...

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man ...