250 Quotes by Arthur Golden

The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.

Sadness was a very heavy thing.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

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.

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.