59 Quotes by Murasaki Shikibu

Autumn is no time to lie alone

There is more here than meets the eye.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

Autumn is no time to lie alone.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.