Arthur Golden: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together…”

“Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.”

“Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.”

“How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?”

“Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.”

“Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it”

“A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.”

“I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.”

“I've lived my life again just telling it to you.”

“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

“And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

“Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.”

“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

“You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.”

“Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.”

“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.”

“When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.”

“Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.”