I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter wha….

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male..

Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, prin….

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk..

As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more..

I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this ….

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by….

What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I ….

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of….

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beauti….

Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under..

In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more ac….

I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the si….

Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I sho….

I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. My only ally is the ta….

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt….

Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened..

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being..

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis o….

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pr….

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