The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer “Nothing.” The thought went through my mind that it… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
“Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
“Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to go to… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
“I feel so unhappy.” I am sure that this one phrase whispered to me would arouse my sympathy more than the longest, most painstaking… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
“Of late a gloomy rain has been falling almost incessantly. Whatever I do depresses me.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
“All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
“Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share
