263 Quotes by Osamu Dazai

The blue sky is most beautiful when see through a prison cell window.

I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one’s head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.

I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

I believed that the gloom of our daily lives could not be dispelled, no matter how much one declaimed about society and politics.

We continued to walk without talking. I thought that from now on I will carefully look at the faces of women I encounter, and to some degree, the innocent, transparent beauty of Mabo will appear in all of their faces. Women have become womanly. But the change is not in the women before the world war. The new womanliness has experienced the suffering of war.

Human beings never submit to human beings.

Mustahil bagi seorang manusia – tidak, seorang lelaki – untuk terus hidup tanpa merenung “Aku ini salah satu orang pilihan”, “Aku ini punya kelebihan”, dan lain-lain.

Just to see all the books lining the shelves would lighten my mood as if by magic. Of course, I didn’t go to bookstores just to read articles on anatomy. I went because any book gave me comfort and solace at the time.

Labeled a delinquent. That’s the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.