“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
“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
“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 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
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
“It was not so much shame that I experienced as the feeling that the actual world was an unfamiliar organism utterly unlike… — Osamu Dazai Desolation 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 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
“He murmured, 'You did it on purpose.' I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had… — Osamu Dazai Clown Copy Share Image
People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as… — Osamu Dazai Affection Copy Share Image
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“I am choking in the suffocating foul air of the harbor. I want to hoist my sails in the open sea, even… — Osamu Dazai 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
