Din

“People who don’t know what it’s like being poor are always like, ‘It’s okay to be poor, as long as you have love,’ but they don’t know what they’re saying.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“Sometimes I feel so—I don’t know—lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s
no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Maybe I've lost sight of me. I don't have a sense that I'm living this life as myself, as the real me. Sometimes I think I'm merely a shadow. When I feel that way, I get this restless feeling, like I'm simply tracing an outline of myself, cleverly pretending to be me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“If you keep a goldfish in captivity but don't take care of it then it won't live more than a month. Even if it's a lie, give me my pride, my freedom, and the rolling green meadows!”
― Osamu Dazai, Retrogression