Osamu Dazai Quotes
- All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest.…
- What uneasiness lies in being loved.
- It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
- Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should…
- Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of…
- The real things are apt to be deviant.
- Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
- As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.
- What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could…
- What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of…
- For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying…
- I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing…
- Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.
- A true artist is an ugly man.
- To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.
- Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who…
- In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes…
- 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 with…
- I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one,…
- Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.