“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
Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in… — 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
“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
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per… — 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
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the… — 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
“I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the… — 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