Favorite Dazai quotes

I'm bored asf so here's my favorite Dazai Osamu quotes (From the irl author.)

“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”

“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”

“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 could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”

“Living itself is the source of sin.”

He's so me<3 (except I didn't abandon my wife and children)

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