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Quotes About Existence

Disqualified as a human beings. I had now ceased utterly to be a human beings.
~ Osamu Dazai
In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.
~ Osamu Dazai
If my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine?
~ Osamu Dazai
She lay down beside me, Towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word "death." She too seemed to be weary beyond endurance of the task of being a human being; and when I reflected on my dread of the world and its bothersomeness, on money, the movement, women, my studies, it seemed impossible that I could go on living. I consented easily to her proposal.
~ Osamu Dazai
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.
~ Osamu Dazai
There was something wrong about thse people. But perhaps, just as it is true of my love, they could not go on living except in the way they do. If it is true that man, once born into the world, must somehow live out his life, perhaps the appearance that people make in order to go through with it, even if it is as ugly as their appearance, should not be despised. To be alive. To be alive. An intolerably immense undertaking before which one can only gasp in apprehension.
~ Osamu Dazai
Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.
~ Osamu Dazai
If it failed I had no choice but to hang myself, a resolve which was tantamount to a bet on the existence of God.
~ Osamu Dazai
Women sleep so soundly they seem to be dead. Who knows? Women may live in order to sleep.
~ Osamu Dazai
Nothing was so hard for me to understand, so baffling, and at the same time so filled with menacing overtones as the commonplace remark, "Human beings work to earn their bread, for if they don't eat, they die.
~ Osamu Dazai
I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
~ Osamu Dazai
I wonder if I have actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell.
~ Osamu Dazai
Tahun lalu tak terjadi apa-apa Tahun sebelumnya pun tak terjadi apa-apa Dan tahun sebelum tahun sebelumnya juga tak terjadi apa-apa.
~ Osamu Dazai
En mi existencia ya no existe la felicidad o el sufrimiento. Todo pasa. Esa es la única verdad en toda mi vida, transcurrida en el interminable infierno de la sociedad humana. Todo pasa.
~ Osamu Dazai
Quiero morir, porque el vivir sólo causa pecado.
~ Osamu Dazai
To be alive. To be alive. An intolerably immense undertaking before which one can only gasp in apprehension.
~ Osamu Dazai
En mi existencia ya no existe la felicidad o el sufrimiento. Todo pasa.
~ Osamu Dazai
Bagaimanapun kau bisa meyakini satu hal: seorang lelaki musti berpura-pura demi meneruskan hidup.
~ Osamu Dazai
It is only too obvious that favoritism inevitably exists: it would have been useless to complain to human beings. So I said nothing of the truth.
~ Osamu Dazai
Doesn't that mean in effect that i have no choice but suicide?
~ Osamu Dazai
There's nothing wrong in being a monster, is there? As long as we can stay alive?
~ Osamu Dazai
People depend on death to be complete. While alive, they are all incomplete.
~ Osamu Dazai
O insanlar kusurluydular. Ama belki de benim a?k?m için ya?ad???m gibi onlar da bu biçimde ya?ayarak ayakta durabiliyorlard?. ?ayet insan, hayata geldi?inde ?u ya da bu biçimde ya?amaya devam edecekse sona varmak için büründü?ü görünüm çirkin bile olsa küçümsenmemelidir. Hayat?n? ya?amak. Ya?amak. Muazzam bir giri?im, insan? endi?eye bo?acak kadar.
~ Osamu Dazai
Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.
~ Osamu Dazai