263 Quotes by Osamu Dazai

It made me miserable that I was rapidly becoming an adult and that I was unable to do anything about it.

I hated school and never read a textbook. I only read entertaining books.

Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life.

By living this way, what will my fortune be? There is nothing. Am I simply a sickly man? What should I do? I had no direction, nothing. I thought that this reckless life of mine was only a nuisance to others and devoid of meaning. This was quite hard to bear.

I entered this Health Dojo because the war ended and life suddenly became precious.

What a holy thing uncorrupted virginity is, I thought.

A mere smile can determine a woman’s fate.

Learning is a another name of vanity, It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

If he wears a tag, doesn’t that make him harmless? It sounds rather sweet, like a kitten with a bell around its neck. A dissolute character without a tag is what frightens me.