Dazai Quotes

“But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

“Ha-ha-ha! I never thought you'd be able to scare me like that! You've grown, Atsushi! The only way I knew how to reward you was by showing you my secret technique: Cardiac Arrest.”
― Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]

“Existe la palabra «marginados», que denota a los infelices, a los fracasados y a los descarriados en la sociedad humana; pero yo creo que lo soy desde el momento en que nací. Por eso, cuando me cruzo con alguien calificado de «marginado», de inmediato siento afecto por él. Un afecto que llena todo mi cuerpo de un arrobamiento de ternura.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Society won't stand for it.
It's not society. You're the one who won't stand for it--right?
If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it.
It's not society. It's you, isn't it?
Before you know it, you'll be ostracized by society.
It's not society. You're going to do the ostracizing, aren't you?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I just need one more year to finish my suicide note”
― Osamu Dazai

“It would have been better had I turned into a character from my own stories. An idle womaniser.”
― Osamu Dazai, Retrogression

“Verlaine – “You sound like you’re certain he’s human.”
Dazai – “I am. There’s no way I could hate a man-made character string this much.”
― Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス ＳＴＯＲＭ ＢＲＩＮＧＥＲ [Bungō Stray Dogs: Storm Bringer]

“Please take me with you. Awaken me from this oxidizing world of a dream. Come, now. Shoot.”
― Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]

“Women found in me a man who could keep could keep a love secret.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“What might become art was not the scenery of Tokyo, but the 'I' inside the scenery. Had I been deluded by art? Had I deluded art? Conclusion: Art is 'I.”
― Osamu Dazai

“Ah, life is an awful proposition. It's especially hard, and sad, for a man. A man has no choice but to fight. And he must win.”
― Osamu Dazai

“A man falls deeper and deeper in love with himself, not listening to what anyone tells him, and the next thing he knows he's lying in an underpass, no longer even human.”
― Osamu Dazai

“The phrase 'human rights' comes to mind. All of the patients here are no longer human.”
― Osamu Dazai, Retrogression