Gk’s Reviews > No Longer Human : Osamu Dazai Ningen shikkaku translated) 2022 > Status Update

I felt as though the vessel of my suffering had become empty

was in a mental hospital.
My delirious cry after I swallowed the sleeping pills—that I would go where there were no women—had now materialized in a truly uncanny way

There are all kinds of unhappy people in this world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people

Sometimes you get terribly lonesome and depressed, but that only makes a woman’s heart itch all the more for you

Just outside the apartment window was a kite caught in the telegraph wires; blown about and ripped by the dusty spring wind, it nevertheless clung tenaciously to the wires, as if in affirmation of something