Quotes by : Osamu Dazai

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant.....

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified....

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration....

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy,....

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot....

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body....

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I....

I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From now....