“When I liked something I tasted it hesitantly, furtively, as though it were extremely bitter.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal. — Osamu Dazai Art Copy Share Image
“The loyalty between friends is the most boastful treasure in this world.” — Osamu Dazai Boastful Copy Share Image
“Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Excessively passionate characters have a tendency to behave poorly.” — Osamu Dazai Character Copy Share Image
“I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent… — Osamu Dazai Death Copy Share Image
“Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the… — Osamu Dazai Friendship Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost… — Osamu Dazai Apathy Copy Share Image
For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and… — Osamu Dazai Ability Copy Share Image
“The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals.” — Osamu Dazai Community Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized.” — Osamu Dazai Luck Copy Share Image
Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends… — Osamu Dazai Bosom friends Copy Share Image
“I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be all right. If I succeed in that, the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help)… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“But rather than the patronizing "But being decadent is the only way to survive!" of some who criticize me, I would far… — Osamu Dazai Patronizing Copy Share Image
“At this moment, as I stood on the verge of tears, the words "realism" and "romanticism" welled up within me. I have… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my… — Osamu Dazai Ability Copy Share Image
“There was something wrong about thse people. But perhaps, just as it is true of my love, they could not go on… — 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
“What, I wondered, did he mean by “society”? The plural of human beings? Where was the substance of this thing called “society”?… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Item. A hand in plaster. This was the right hand of Venus. A hand like a dahlia blossom, a pure white hand,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“I was conscripted during the war and even made to do coolie labor. The sneakers I now wear when I work in… — Osamu Dazai Business Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a… — Osamu Dazai Belief Copy Share Image
“I wonder why Miss Kosugi's lectures are always so stiff. Is she a fool? It makes me sad. She went on and… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.” — Osamu Dazai Depression Copy Share Image
“Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.” — Osamu Dazai Disqualified Copy Share Image
I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are. — Osamu Dazai Character Copy Share Image
“I’m going to paint too. I’m going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.” — Osamu Dazai Artist Copy Share Image
Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under. — Osamu Dazai Delinquent Copy Share Image
