Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

- Osamu Dazai

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

- Osamu Dazai

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

- Osamu Dazai

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 exp…

- Osamu Dazai

The real things are apt to be deviant.

- Osamu Dazai

I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought …

- Osamu Dazai

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

- Osamu Dazai

The weak fear happiness itself.

- Osamu Dazai

What uneasiness lies in being loved.

- Osamu Dazai