Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance.
Osamu DazaiIt would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
Osamu DazaiTag: storytelling japan japanese
I can never forget the indescribably crafty shadow that passed over Flatfish's face as he laughed at me, his neck drawn in. It resembled contempt, yet it was different: if the world, like the sea, had depths of a thousand fathoms, this was the kind of weird shadows which might be found hovering here and there at the bottom. It was a laugh that enabled me to catch a glimpse of the very nadir of adult life.
Osamu DazaiFor someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.
Osamu DazaiTag: fear life friendship loneliness trust depression social-anxiety mental-illness human-relationships social-awkwardness
What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
Osamu DazaiTag: fear life friendship school society people work loneliness paranoia depression social-anxiety mental-illness social-awkwardness
[...] I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.
Osamu DazaiTag: fear life loneliness paranoia depression social-anxiety mental-illness social-awkwardness
Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.
Osamu DazaiTag: fear life friendship loneliness paranoia friendships depression social-anxiety mental-illness human-relationships social-awkwardness
Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.
Osamu DazaiTag: fear life friendship love loneliness hypocrisy depression social-anxiety mental-illness social-awkwardness
And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.
Osamu DazaiTag: fear life loneliness paranoia depression social-anxiety mental-illness social-awkwardness
I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.
Osamu DazaiTag: life murder sadness suffering struggle crime depression
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