Quote

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

Arthur Golden

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Find
Much
World
Geisha
Kindness
None

More quotes by Arthur Golden

Image
Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
Arthur Golden
Image
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
Image
I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
Arthur Golden
Image
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
Arthur Golden
Image
Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
Arthur Golden
Image
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
Arthur Golden
Image
Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
Arthur Golden
Image
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
Image
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
Image
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
Arthur Golden
Image
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
Arthur Golden
Image
My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
Arthur Golden
Image
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
Arthur Golden
Image
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
Arthur Golden
Image
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
Arthur Golden
Image
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
Arthur Golden
Image
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
Image
A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
Arthur Golden
Image
Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
Arthur Golden
Image
We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
Arthur Golden