GK

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's pain.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“I have one request to make of you, which embarrasses me very much. You remember the hemp kimono of Mother's which you altered so that I could wear it next summer? Please put it in my coffin. I wanted to wear it.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun