Top 371 quotes by Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden quote Adversity is like a strong ...

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Adversity

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Arthur Golden quote He was like a song I'd hear...

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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Arthur Golden quote I don't know when we'll see...

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Hope , Parting

657

Arthur Golden quote I dont think any of us can ...

I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Memories

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Arthur Golden quote If you aren't the woman I t...

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Love , Geisha , Woman , Memoirs

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Arthur Golden quote Can't you see? Every step I...

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Love

326

From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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Arthur Golden quote If you have experienced an ...

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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Arthur Golden quote Waiting patiently doesn't s...

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about.
[Mameha]
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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Arthur Golden quote Of course, a sign doesn't m...

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Inspirational

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You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
Arthur Golden

“Memoirs of a Geisha”. Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Fear , Trauma

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
Arthur Golden

"Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

Inspirational , Life , One Direction

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
Arthur Golden

Rivers , Giving Up , Dams

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.34, Random House

Long , Life , Rocks