“When I liked something I tasted it hesitantly, furtively, as though it were extremely bitter.” — Osamu Dazai 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
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of… — Osamu Dazai Humans Copy Share Image
“Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.” — Osamu Dazai Alcohol 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 Death Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Character Copy Share Image
“When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.” — Osamu Dazai Honor Copy Share Image
“A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.” — Osamu Dazai Book 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
“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
“The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals.” — Osamu Dazai Community 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
I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die… — Osamu Dazai Flower Copy Share Image
Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long… — Osamu Dazai Beautiful 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
“I can never forget the indescribably crafty shadow that passed over Flatfish's face as he laughed at me, his neck drawn in.… — Osamu Dazai Adult life Copy Share Image
“Most women have only to lay eyes on you to want to be doing something for you so badly they can’t stand… — Osamu Dazai 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
“I didn't know whether it was better to maintain a fierce distinction between yourself and your acquaintances in society in order to… — Osamu Dazai Acquaintances Copy Share Image
“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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 despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.” — Osamu Dazai Frightening 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
“Of late a gloomy rain has been falling almost incessantly. Whatever I do depresses me.” — Osamu Dazai Rain Copy Share Image
![“Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.” quote by Osamu Dazai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcf/osamu-dazai-2813_beautiful_scoundrels-simply-don-t-die-the-ones-who_3150014.jpg)
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