263 Quotes by Osamu Dazai

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It’s straightforward. But people almost never say, “Die!” Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

Long personal experience had taught me that when a woman suddenly bursts into hysterics, the way to restore her sprits is to give her something sweet.

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest.

Most drinkers are lonely men, isolated in their own homes. To ask whether they drink because they’re isolated or isolated because the rest of the family disapprove of their drinking would be like clapping and trying to decide which hand made the sound – it can only lead to a lot of vain quibbling.

Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.

God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?

He must live up to his friend’s trust – that alone mattered.

Living itself is the source of sin.

When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.