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The Setting Sun QUOTES

The Setting Sun QUOTES

1 " This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

2 " I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. 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. I do not trust the world. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

3 " In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

4 " When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

5 " It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

6 " Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

7 " My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

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

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

9 " Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

10 " Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

11 " I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.
I want money. Unless I have it....
In my sleep, a natural death! "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

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

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

13 " At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

14 " 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 , The Setting Sun

15 " It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

16 " In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

17 " The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

18 " Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun

19 " 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 , The Setting Sun

20 " 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 that
Mother might well be the last of those
who can end their lives beautifully and
sadly, struggling with no one, neither
hating nor betraying anyone. In the
world to come there will be no room for
such people. The dying are beautiful,
but to live, to survive – those things
somehow seem hideous and
contaminated with blood. "

― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun