263 Quotes by Osamu Dazai

I think humanity is universal love and no one should be banished. The natural love of humanity is not to be forgotten under any circumstances.

Whenever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. I always accepted the attack in silence, though inwardly so terrified as almost to be out of my mind.

The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection.

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist’s point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

It occurred to me that prison life might actually be pleasanter than groaning away my sleepless nights in hellish dread of the “realities of life” as led by human beings.

The source of our laughter is the small stone that tumbled into a corner of Pandora’s box.

It’s his father’s fault,” she said unemotionally. “The Yozo we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn’t drunk – no, even though he did drink – he was a good boy, an angel.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

I was a petal quivering in the slightest breeze, about to fall any moment. Even the slightest insult made me think of dying.