I Craved Desperately Some Great Savage Joy, No Matter How Immense The Suffering That Might Ensue…

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes… Painters who have had this mentality, after repeated wounds and intimidations at the hands of the apparitions called human beings, have often come to believe in phantasms—they plainly saw monsters in broad daylight, in the midst of nature. And they did not fob people off with clowning; they did their best to depict these monsters just as they had appeared.

Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human

"Wake up, Osamu..."

Me: I can be friends with anything.....

Me: I can even be friends with a rock.

“teenage Dazai this” “teenage Chuuya that”

WHAT ABOUT TEENAGE FUKUZAWA

I know where Ranpo gets it from.

day 194: 8mjn before next day I'm so smart

Dazai: I don’t fear death.

Also Dazai: has a panic attack when the vending machine eats his yen.

And I've learned the hardest; forever doesn't last.

Sasuke Uchiha // Naruto Shippuden EP 443