Osamu Dazai

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind.

I was unable to shake off the feeling that I had no real right to be here at all, that I was an interloper. I felt more and more uncomfortable, as if I were a criminal.

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.

The more I become accustomed to the world, the more it seems to me that I am the only one entirely out of place.

I have worked hard at it, and I have been a success. What I have done has been the result of my own efforts.

I think it is a great thing to have played with death, and to be able to regard the world with somewhat different eyes.

I was struck by how simple her words were, and yet they reached straight to the heart of the matter. In a sense, it was almost frightening.

I was suddenly filled with a sense of happiness. I knew that I loved the world and I wanted to stay here a little longer.

The more I’ve gone on living, the more I’ve seen that I am not the sort of person who will ever have a place to belong.

I was prepared to find the world a dark, forbidding place, but I never dreamed it would be quite so foul as this.

I am a living person, and a living person has the right to live his life as he wishes.

I am astounded by the beauty of the world and the sheer happiness of being alive in it.