Mine has been a life of much shame.

恥の多い生涯を送って来ました。

Osamu Dazai

Writers & Literary Figures

Osamu Dazai

Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was a Japanese novelist whose confessional masterpiece 'No Longer Human' remains one of Japan's best-selling novels. A troubled genius who struggled with addiction and multiple suicide attempts, his raw, darkly humorous prose captured the despair and self-loathing of postwar Japan with unflinching honesty.

View this figure's profile

Source: 人間失格Verified

Osamu Dazai's Other Quotes

弱虫は、幸福をさえおそれるものです。綿で怪我をするんです。

Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

Related Quotes

人間五十年、下天の内をくらぶれば、夢幻のごとくなり。

-- Oda Nobunaga

There is nothing to be done about it.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

There is nothing to be done about it.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

There is nothing to be done about it.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu