{"author":"Osamu Dazai","author_id":"Osamu+Dazai","total_quotes":42,"quotes":[{"text":"I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, 'Die!' Paltry, prudent hypocrites!","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["death","dying","hypocrisy","hypocrites","people","society","suicide"],"id":1713,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["awful","clean","cycle","exhilaration","free","freedom","never-ending","nothing","outrageous","pure","purity","sleep"],"id":2943,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"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.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["death","depression","life-and-death","living","mental-illness","pain","struggle","suffering","suicide"],"id":18570,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"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.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["family","friends","humans","hypocrisy","life","living","lying","pain","people","school","society","suffering","work"],"id":24400,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["honor","ridicule","ridiculous","shame"],"id":26900,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["japanese","war"],"id":31046,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"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.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["deceit","deception","human","life"],"id":34248,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["dark","japanese-literature","unhappiness"],"id":39380,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["death","depression","fear","friendship","life","loneliness","mental-illness","social-anxiety","social-awkwardness","suicidal","suicide"],"id":40794,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["alcohol","literature","practical-wisdom","romance"],"id":45968,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}