263 Quotes by Osamu Dazai

...I was cured by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

What superficiality - and what stupidity - there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty.

The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them.

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person’s heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity

It may be true that in any society defective types with low vitality like myself are doomed to perish, not because of what they think or anything else, but because of themselves. I have, however, some slight excuse to offer. I feel the overwhelming pressure of circumstances which make it extremely difficult for me to live.

I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink.