263 Quotes by Osamu Dazai

I hope I meet lots of people with lovely eyes.

A mere smile can determine a woman’s fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.

I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.

Whenever I let the slightest thing make me forget myself, I can’t help but be disappointed.

Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

One lies to seek a bit of relief from a ponderous, suffocating reality, but the liar, like the drinker, gradually comes to need larger and larger doses. The lies become blacker and more complex, and they mesh and rub together until in the end they shine with the luster of truth.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn’t know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

I have no choice. I am a person with no reason to live. I know my lot. Yes, it would be great to die one day sooner.

Life itself is bound to be dreary if you carry a lot of baggage about.