All Murasaki Shikibu Quotes
- The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep. Drifting
- In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story. Desire
- I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's… Art
- Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams. Darkness
- 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.… Accomplished
- Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow. All
- There are as many sorts of women as there are women. Funny
- No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study… Any
- You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay. Back Upon
- It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed Action
- One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties… Account
- Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. Another World
- The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according… According
- No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure Endure
- How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to… Air
- There is more here than meets the eye. Appearance
- A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest. Dream
- Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report. Belies
- Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune. Foolish
- Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind. Behind