Softballet

“It is true, I suppose, that nobody finds it exactly pleasant to be criticized or shouted at, but I see in the face of the human being raging at me a wild animal in its true colors, one more horrible than any lion, crocodile or dragon. People normally seem to be hiding this true nature, but an occasion will arise (as when an ox sedately ensconced in a grassy meadow suddenly lashes out with its tail to kill the horsefly on its flank) when anger makes them reveal in a flash human nature in all its horror.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“The feelings which assailed me as I looked up at the summer night sky heavy with rain were not of fury or hatred, nor even of sadness. They were of overpowering fear, not the terror the sight of ghosts in a graveyard might arouse, but rather a fierce ancestral dread that could not be expressed in four or five words, something perhaps like encountering in the sacred grove of a Shinto shrine the white-clothed body of the god. My hair turned prematurely grey from that night. I had now lost all confidence in myself, doubted all men immeasurably, and abandoned all hopes for the things of this world, all joy, all sympathy, eternally. This was truly the decisive incident of my life. I had been split through the forehead between the eyebrows, a wound that was to throb with pain whenever I came in contact with a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“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

“მარადისობის კანონის აზრი იმაში მდგომარეობს, პატივცემულო პროფესორო, რომ... ადამიანის სული გაცილებით უფრო მძიმეა, ვიდრე სხეული, იმდენად მძიმე რომ ერთ ადამიანს მისი ტარება არ შეუძლია, ამიტომ, ვიდრე ცოცხლები ვართ, ერთმანეთს ხელი უნდა შევაშველოთ და ვეცადთ, როგორმე უკვდავყოთ ერთმანეტის სული; თქვენ ჩემი, მე სხვისი, სხვამ სხვისი და ასე დაუსაბამოდ, რამეთუ იმ სხვისი გარდაცვალების შემდეგ არ დავობლდეთ და მარტონი არ დავრჩეთ ამ ქვეყანაზე...”
― Nodar Dumbadze, მარადისობის კანონი