Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
– Thomas Hardy –
From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?
– Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human
I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.
– Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human
People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.
– Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human
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.
– Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human
By touch we are betrayed and betray others … an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands … hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.
– Wallace Stegner –
Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.
– Suzanne Finnamore –
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
– Aberjhani –
Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hour.
This is how love is,
An uncontrollable beast …
– Suzy Kassem –
It is “borders” and “fences” that
are a figment of illusion.
– Chevalieuse de Faeinoterre Helia –
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