Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Ends
May
Nothing
Struggling
Sometimes
Evening
Always
Neither
Never
Destiny
Life
Struggle
Like
Party

More quotes by Arthur Golden

Image
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
Arthur Golden
Image
Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
Arthur Golden
Image
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
Image
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.
Arthur Golden
Image
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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
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
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
Arthur Golden
Image
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
Arthur Golden
Image
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
Image
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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
A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
Arthur Golden
Image
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
Arthur Golden
Image
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
Arthur Golden
Image
I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
Arthur Golden