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Osamu Dazai Quotes

1909–1948

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Most of our children’s stories end with the perpetrators of evil deeds getting what’s coming to them, but this old gentleman did nothing wrong.

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

Nevertheless, I still wait for someone. Who on earth am I waiting for, sitting here everyday?

I never could think of prostitutes as human beings or even as women. They seemed more like imbeciles or lunatics.

The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like—no thanks.

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other people.

In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim.

Real thought takes courage more than intelligence.

Extremely tragic is a good description of you.

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.

I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.

But even more pathetic is that—to my surprise—the truth could be found in aspects of myself that I don't like.

My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

Of course, I intended to die without telling a soul about my illness.

It is only too obvious that favoritism inevitably exists: it would have been useless to complain to human beings. So I said nothing of the truth.

No thought in the world is worse than the realization that, “My life is a nuisance to others. I am useless."

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

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