Quote

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

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
Even
Trauma
Dropped
Continues
Stone
Stones
Quivering
Bottom
Sunk
Water
Pond
Fear
Ponds

More quotes by 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
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
Arthur Golden
Image
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.
Arthur Golden
Image
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
Arthur Golden
Image
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
Arthur Golden
Image
Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
Arthur Golden
Image
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
Arthur Golden
Image
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
Arthur Golden
Image
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
Arthur Golden
Image
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
Arthur Golden
Image
A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
Arthur Golden
Image
Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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
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