Osamu Dazai

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

"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…"

"Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant. It is a struggle between one individual to another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immed…"

"Though I have always made it my practice to be pleasant to everybody, I have not once actually experienced friendship. I have only the most painful recollections of my various acquaintances with the e…"

"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."

"My unhappiness was the unhappiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's…"

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

"There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes. And the more nervous they are-…"