For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

— Osamu Dazai

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

— Osamu Dazai

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

— Osamu Dazai

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.

— Osamu Dazai

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

— Osamu Dazai

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.

— Osamu Dazai

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

— Osamu Dazai

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.

— Osamu Dazai

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. Furthermore, I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy. I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. Furthermore, I do not trust the world.

— Osamu Dazai

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which is borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

— Osamu Dazai