Arthur Golden quotes

Arthur Golden is an American author, best known for his bestselling novel "Memoirs of a Geisha." His work offers a rich portrayal of Japanese culture and history through compelling storytelling. He remains a widely respected figure in contemporary literature. Here are 74 of his quotes:

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

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Arthur Golden

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Arthur Golden

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Arthur Golden

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Arthur Golden

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

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

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

Arthur Golden

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. (Arthur Golden)

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

The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

Arthur Golden

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

Arthur Golden

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

Arthur Golden

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.

Arthur Golden

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.

Arthur Golden

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.

Arthur Golden

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Arthur Golden

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Arthur Golden

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)

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Arthur Golden

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Arthur Golden

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

Arthur Golden

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden

Occupation: American Writer
Born: December 6, 1956
Quotes count: 74
Wikipedia: Arthur Golden

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