"No Longer Human" Quotes
"No Longer Human" follows the alienated life of Oba Yozo as he struggles with isolation, self-destruction, and a profound sense of disconnection from society.
fiction | 176 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
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.





