Quotes from Osamu Dazai

I grew up loyal, so don't let me die a traitor.

I wondered if in the end I would not be argued into silence by someone in good graces with the world, by the excuses of which the world approved.

The revolution is far from taking place. It needs more, many more valuable, unfortunate victims. In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim.

Although my body was useless, out of what felt like desperation, I acted out a hateful, scathing punishment. There were days when each time I lowered the hoe, I would groan, "Die! Just die and end it! Die! Die and end it all!" I planted 600 sweet potato vines.

Harada seemed quite menacing. But men of his type are sometimes so intimidated by their own grandeur that they turn into cowards.

loneliness or pain like for him? Last night I

Znowu chcia?em umrze?. Mo?ecie to nazwa? egzaltacj?. By?em zapatrzony w siebie. Postrzega?em ?ycie ludzkie jako spektakl. A w?a?ciwie spektakl by? dla mnie ?yciem.

The mother of that child is bad." Everything is the mother's fault.

You don't say! It's always a pleasure to meet someone who loves mums.

Who are jails made for? Only poor people are put in jails! They are probably just the weak and honest people who don't know how to trick others. Just because they aren't craft or evil enough to get by through tricking other people, they get driven into a corner and end up doing something stupid, like stealing two or three yen. And for that they have to go to jail for five or ten years!

It was merely that a ne'er-do-well such as Harada will bungle things whenever good fortune smiles upon him. People like him become fidgety and sheepish at the sudden appearance of fortune. "Good luck brings bad,

Why is physical love bad and spiritual love good? I don't understand. I can't help feeling that they are the same. I would like to boast that I am she who could destroy her body and soul in Gehenna for the sake of a love, for the sake of a passion she could not understand, or for the sake of the sorrow they engendered.

Go ahead, stare at us. Our family is beautiful.

Speech blossoms from anxiety… words were fermented from the uncertainty of existence, like poisonous red mushrooms sprout from the rotting earth. It's true we have words of joy and pleasure, but aren't those the most unnatural and contrived of them all? Apparently, human beings experience anxiety even in the midst of joy. But in a place without anxiety, there's no need for such ignoble contrivances.

As the saying goes, pull in your belly and your rump sticks out—and it works the same way with self-respect too.

Why has such a good plan never occurred to me before? All the suffering I have gone through has been because of my own stupidity.

I'm afraid I don't really have a clear understanding of the psychology of the powerful- particularly the absolutely invincible variety, which I've never met or known to exist. I'm a story writer with such feeble imaginative powers that unless I myself have experienced something, I can't write one line- I can't write a word- about it.

That faint and distant sound of hammering was like a miracle, stripping me of every militaristic illusion. Never again would I become intoxicated by that nightmare with its so-called pathos and glory.

Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere.

?nsanlar?n beni sevdi?ini bilsem de, san?r?m onlar? sevme yetene?im yoktu.

It's because people have aspirations and ambitions that solitude wears on them. If you don't have a damn about what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years- a thousand years- with no difficulty whatsoever. At least, you can if you don't let criticism bother you.

Quando scoprii che il mio concetto della felicità sembrava in pieno contrasto con quello d'ogni altra persona, fu tale l'angoscia che mi dibattei gemendo insonne nel mio letto per notti e notti di seguito.

you didn't know enough to distrust others

Poverty is nothing. As long as you love me, all I want is to spend my whole life by your side. But you love Naoji more than you love me, don't you?