Dazai Osamu Quotes
Collection of top 72 famous quotes about Dazai Osamu
Dazai Osamu Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Dazai Osamu quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
When I liked something I tasted it hesitantly, furtively, as though it were extremely bitter.
— Osamu Dazai
My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people
— Osamu Dazai
I yearned for everything long gone.
— Osamu Dazai
Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.
— Osamu Dazai
I hope I meet lots of people with lovely eyes.
— Osamu Dazai
Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened. — Osamu Dazai
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened. — Osamu Dazai
A true artist is an ugly man.
— Osamu Dazai
A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.
— Osamu Dazai
Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.
— Kafka Asagiri
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.
— Osamu Dazai
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
Show me what you've written, I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.
— Osamu Dazai
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.
— Osamu Dazai
Forgive me. I didn't mean to kill you, Polonius. The blade slipped out of the sheath, and it struck you.
— Osamu Dazai
Disqualified as a human being.
— Osamu Dazai
The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like - no thanks.
— Osamu Dazai
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.
— Osamu Dazai
When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized.
— Osamu Dazai
Human beings never submit to human beings.
— Osamu Dazai
Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty.
— 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.
— Osamu Dazai
I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women.
— Osamu Dazai
I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.
— Osamu Dazai
I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!
— Osamu Dazai
Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret.
— Osamu Dazai
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.
— Osamu Dazai
I have never been able to
meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful
smiles, the buffoonery of defeat. — Osamu Dazai
meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful
smiles, the buffoonery of defeat. — Osamu Dazai
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
— Osamu Dazai
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.
— Osamu Dazai
Most people would take me for over forty.
— Osamu Dazai
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! — Osamu Dazai
I want money. Unless I have it ...
In my sleep, a natural death! — Osamu Dazai
I have frantically played the clown in order to distangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result.
— Osamu Dazai
I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.
— Osamu Dazai
To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.
— Osamu Dazai
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
— Osamu Dazai
The real things are apt to be deviant.
— Osamu Dazai
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
— Osamu Dazai
Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.
— Osamu Dazai
Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue.
— Osamu Dazai
What uneasiness lies in being loved.
— Osamu Dazai
Everything passes.
— Osamu Dazai
My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind.
— Osamu Dazai
What is society but an individual?
— Osamu Dazai
hope and passion slip through your fingers like sand and in front of you lies a vast stretch of darkness
— Dazai Osamu
The weak fear happiness itself.
— Osamu Dazai
There's something about you that smells a little of a Christian priest. I find it offensive.
— Osamu Dazai
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
— Osamu Dazai
Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.
— Osamu Dazai
I'm going to paint too. I'm going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.
— Osamu Dazai
The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness
— Osamu Dazai
The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.
— Osamu Dazai
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.
— Osamu Dazai
Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance.
— Osamu Dazai
Living itself is the source of sin.
— Osamu Dazai
I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.
— Osamu Dazai
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.
— Osamu Dazai
I smiled in my weakness.
— Osamu Dazai