Arthur Golden Quotes - Page 5

• No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

  Arthur Golden

  Memoir, Wells, Knows

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• Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

  Arthur Golden

  Flower, One Day, Grows

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• 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

  Men, Gone Away, People

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.427, Random House

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• I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Memories, Ocean

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• In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

  Arthur Golden

  Children, Taken, Doors

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• 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?

  Arthur Golden

  Wish, Lessons, May

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• Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

  Arthur Golden

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

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• All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

  Arthur Golden

  Girl, Crowds, Empty

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.376, Random House

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• His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

  Arthur Golden

  Struggle, Worry, Effort

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.9, Random House

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• 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

  Grateful, Evening, Ends

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.113, Random House

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• of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

  Arthur Golden

  Pace, Pace Of Change, Courses

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• Ni tú ni yo podemos conocer tu destino. Puede que nunca lo conozcas. El destino no siempre es como una fiesta al final de la noche. A veces no es más que luchar por la vida día a día.

  Arthur Golden

  Party, Struggle, Destiny

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.294, Random House

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• Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

  Arthur Golden

  Destiny, Men, Needs

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