As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more. — Osamu Dazai Language Copy Share Image
“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue” — Osamu Dazai Beauty Copy Share Image
“no matter how difficult, because I would have a purpose in life, I would have hope.” — Osamu Dazai Hope Copy Share Image
“Of late a gloomy rain has been falling almost incessantly. Whatever I do depresses me.” — Osamu Dazai Rain Copy Share Image
“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.” — Osamu Dazai Love Copy Share Image
“Whenever I let the slightest thing make me forget myself, I can't help but be disappointed” — Osamu Dazai Disappointed Copy Share Image
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings.” — Osamu Dazai Logic Copy Share Image
“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“I have one request to make of you, which embarrasses me very much. You remember the hemp kimono of Mother's which you… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a… — Osamu Dazai Children Copy Share Image
“A science which is postulated on the assumption that human beings are avaricious through all eternity is utterly devoid of point (whether… — Osamu Dazai Science Copy Share Image
“To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be… — Osamu Dazai Flesh and blood Copy Share Image
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element… — Osamu Dazai Death Copy Share Image
“All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely… — Osamu Dazai Apprehension Copy Share Image
“I suddenly wondered whether Mother might not actually be happy now, whether the sensation of happiness might not be something like faintly… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you… — Osamu Dazai Alcoholic Copy Share Image
“She lay down beside me, Towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word “death.” She too seemed to be weary… — Osamu Dazai Death Copy Share Image
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people… — Osamu Dazai Deceit 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 am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust… — Osamu Dazai Allies Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Academics Copy Share Image
“I had no choice but to pray for his death. Typically enough, the one thing that never occurred to me was to… — Osamu Dazai Death Copy Share Image
To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Though I have always made it my practice to be pleasant to everybody, I have not once actually experienced friendship. I have… — Osamu Dazai Acquaintances Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind -… — Osamu Dazai Character Copy Share Image
“Today, while Mother was watching me work, she suddenly remarked, “They say that people who like summer flowers die in the summer.… — Osamu Dazai Flowers Copy Share Image
I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now… — Osamu Dazai Beautiful Copy Share Image
I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate;… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery,… — Osamu Dazai Art Copy Share Image
“I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a… — Osamu Dazai Clown Copy Share Image
“I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the… — Osamu Dazai Anger Copy Share Image
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where… — Osamu Dazai Childlike 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
“No. You won't do. You've treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It made me feel… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling. — Osamu Dazai Storytelling Copy Share Image
But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“The true substance of love lies in the act of howling words of love with a desperation of a man jumping into… — Osamu Dazai Anime Copy Share Image
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