263 Quotes by Osamu Dazai

If you’ve slept soundly at night the morning is exhilarating, I suppose.

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.

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

American planes circled the clear blue sky of late fall. We stood in front of the Miyoshino-style building and looked up at them. “They’re flying around in vain.” “Yeah,” Mabo said with a smile.

The weak fear happiness itself.

People depend on death to be complete. While alive, they are all incomplete.

Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance.

Around that time, I lost interest in college. I could only see blackness before me, I didn’t know what to do. It was no easy matter to prevent my father from criticizing my loafing around the house and my mother from seeing me as unworthy.

As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much I remain outside their lives.