“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.” — 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
“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
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you… — Osamu Dazai 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
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 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 Image
“Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.” — 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 the usherettes… — Osamu Dazai 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 go to… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“Of late a gloomy rain has been falling almost incessantly. Whatever I do depresses me.” — Osamu Dazai 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 unlike the… — 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
![“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild…” quote by Osamu Dazai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a4b/osamu-dazai-2813_alcoholic_i-drink-out-of-desperation-life-is-too-d_2314144.jpg)
