Quotes from Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

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!

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

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.

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.

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 would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!