# Osamu Dazai's most famous lines (with sources)

"Mine has been a life of much shame", "Mount Fuji goes well with evening primroses" and "Melos was enraged": the most quoted lines from Osamu Dazai's works, including No Longer Human, Run, Melos! and Schoolgirl, with their sources.

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- May 6, 2023 · naranetsurfer
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## Top 13

1. **Mount Fuji goes well with evening primroses.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (1939).
2. **Faithfulness was not, after all, an empty delusion.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Run, Melos! (1940).
3. **With your mouth you can say anything, however pure.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Run, Melos! (1940).
4. **I would like to think that parents matter more than children.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cherries (1948).
5. **Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything simply passes.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No Longer Human (1948).
6. **Do not despair. Well then, farewell.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Tsugaru (1944).
7. **Mine has been a life of much shame.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No Longer Human (1948).
8. **Melos was enraged.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Run, Melos! (1940).
9. **Cowards are afraid even of happiness. They can be hurt by cotton. They can be wounded even by happiness.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No Longer Human (1948).
10. **Tomorrow the same day will come again. Happiness will never come. And yet it is best to go to sleep believing it will come, that tomorrow it will.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Schoolgirl (1939).
11. **I like taking off my glasses and looking into the distance. Everything blurs, like a dream, like a peep show: wonderful.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Schoolgirl (1939).
12. **Deciding you are no good before you have even tried anything — that is laziness.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Owl Correspondence.
13. **Speak of ordinary things in an ordinary way.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The Thinking Reed.

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