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Osamu Dazai Quotes

1909–1948

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But real life is a realm that I may never reach.

I had no choice but to press ahead with my work.

Is it painful to be the person who waits? Or is it more painful to be the person who makes others wait? Either way, there's no need to wait anymore. That's what is most painful.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue.

I have never been able to meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful smiles, the buffoonery of defeat.

You takes things too seriously. It seems you’re not satisfied unless you always make yourself the protagonist in some tragedy.

My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no.

Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late.

From now on I must struggle with the world.

People do not necessarily think and consider in a prescribed way before choosing the path they'll walk. For the most part they simply wander, at some point, into a different meadow.

The smile of one flower permeates those who live next to death more than the problem of life and death.

Is this what all you refined gentlemen are like—wishing and pining and never acting?

The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive – those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.

It is pathetic to watch whatever emotions or sense of reason I have acquired up to that point be devoured by instinct.

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

But these were the lies of science, the lies of statistics and mathematics: you can't collect three grains of rice from everybody.

Anyway, it's a lie when they say your eyes just blink awake.

All I'm doing is indulging myself, trying to console myself.

Are you not all the more dangerous for being without tags?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Osamu Dazai (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.