GK

“No. You won't do. You've treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It made me feel so lonely, somehow... I'm really just a foolish and useless person.”
― Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.”
― haruki murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“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

“Obscurity is Japan's outermost defense. The country doesn't want to be understood.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet