Osamu Dazai quotes

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 me. (Osamu Dazai)
But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today. View quote
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Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are. View quote
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What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings? View quote
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I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again. View quote
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Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy. View quote
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Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. View quote
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Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened. View quote
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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 the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after. View quote
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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. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know. View quote
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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 to read the expression on people's faces. (Osamu Dazai)
The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness. View quote
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I thought, "I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There's no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it's sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves-it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin. View quote
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This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution. View quote
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The weak fear happiness itself. View quote
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Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death? View quote
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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. View quote
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I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. View quote
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Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive. View quote
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People talk of "social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a "social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness. View quote
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God killed me, and only after He made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life. (Osamu Dazai)
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, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of. View quote
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I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. View quote
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He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost. View quote
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As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky. View quote
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