Osamu Dazai Quotes

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• What uneasiness lies in being loved.

  Osamu Dazai

  Lying, Uneasiness, Being Loved

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  People, Rose, Four Seasons

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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• Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes.

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  Burning, Hell, Unhappiness

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  Eye, Wind, Sky

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  Summer, Dream, Recovery

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  Expression, People, Broken

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  Live Life, Shame, Humans

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

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  Addiction, Spirit, Sickness

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• The weak fear happiness itself.

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  Weak

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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

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  Believe, Sadness, Thinking

  "The Setting Sun".

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• The real things are apt to be deviant.

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  Real, Deviants, Real Things

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

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  Believe, World, Able

  Osamu Dazai (2013). “Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu”, p.20, BookBaby

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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.

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  Differences, Mind, Firsts

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

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  People, Looks, Want

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.66, New Directions Publishing

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• The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

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  Wool, Cotton, Sometimes

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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• When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.

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  Pain, Liars, Writing

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• What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

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  Mean, Humans, Human Beings

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• A true artist is an ugly man.

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  Artist, Men, Ugly

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• Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

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  Vices, Morality, Virtue

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.145, New Directions Publishing

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

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  Writing, Written, I Can

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  Mean, Simple, Simplicity

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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.

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  People, Melting, World

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  Agony, Optimism, Agitation

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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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.

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  People, Impossible, Should

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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• At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

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  Eye, Dark, Body

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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