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Osamu Dazai Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people
Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.
A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.
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.
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.
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.
Forgive me. I didn't mean to kill you, Polonius. The blade slipped out of the sheath, and it struck you.
The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like - no thanks.
I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.
When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized.
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.
I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.
I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!
In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.
I have never been able to
meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful
smiles, the buffoonery of defeat.
meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful
smiles, the buffoonery of defeat.
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
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.
I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.
I want money. Unless I have it ...
In my sleep, a natural death!
I want money. Unless I have it ...
In my sleep, a natural death!
I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.
My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind.
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness
The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.
After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.
Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.