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“Very well. I shall attend the anniversary of your escape from your mother's birth canal.”
― Hamish Steele, DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test

“Yes, My Lord.”
― Yana Toboso

“I am just...One hell of a butler.”
― Sebastian Micheals

“And that is why I hate dogs."
" . . . woof."
--Sebastian and Ceiel”
― Yana Toboso

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Why is physical love bad and spiritual love good? I don't understand. I can't help feeling that they are the same. I would like to boast that I am she who could destroy her body and soul in Gehenna for the sake of a love, for the sake of a passion she could not understand, or for the sake of the sorrow they engendered.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“The weak fear happiness itself.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“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 Dazai, No Longer Human

“Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.”
― Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 7 [Bungō Stray Dogs 7]

“Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“I smiled in my weakness.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I always lose the things I don’t want to lose the most. That’s why I don’t feel anything anymore. The moment you get your hands on something worth going after, you lose it. That’s just how things are. There is nothing worth pursuing at the cost of prolonging”
― Kafka Asagiri, Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 2

“A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.”
― Osamu Dazai

“Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“What is society but an individual?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Whenever I let the slightest thing make me forget myself, I can't help but be disappointed”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“Did you cry?”
“No. I didn’t cry ... I just kept thinking that when human beings get that way, they’re no good for anything.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people.”
― Osamu Dazai

“Why some people can be smiling and laughing with their friends in one moment yet break down the moment they are alone. To the point where they are so disconnected from their own needs that they mentally refer to themselves in the third-person. And what can happen when they lack the will to break the cycle themselves or seek real support or help. The question of what truly constitutes self-worth ?”
― Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human

“She must be unhappy too. Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human