Quotes by Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai

A true artist is an ugly man.

Artist

Men

Ugly

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

Addiction

Sickness

Spirit

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. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? – I don’t know.

Impossible

People

Should

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn’t know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

Might

Rooms

Soul

Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.

Men

Offering

Suicide

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

I Can

Writing

Written

As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.

Eye

Sky

Wind

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Body

Dark

Eye

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

Able

Believe

World

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people’s faces.

Broken

Expression

People

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Able

Addiction

Agitation

Agony

Art

Artist

Awkward

Beautiful

Being Loved

Believe

Boards

Body

Broken

Burning

Cases

Character

Children

Complicated

Cotton

Dark

Deception

Departure

Deviants

Differences

Dream

Earthquakes

Example

Expectations

Expression

Eye

Fake

Fall

Fallen

Feelings

Female

Fighting

Firsts

Four Seasons

Gains

Goal

Happened

Hard Work

Hate

Hell

Human Beings

Humans

I Can

Impossible

Irresponsible

Kind

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Quotes by Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai

A true artist is an ugly man.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

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. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? – I don’t know.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn’t know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people’s faces.

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