Certain Quote by Sei Shonagon

“If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.”

Sei Shonagon

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings)

More by Sei Shonagon

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who…

Sei Shonagon

Image

“ 134. Letters are Commonplace Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one…

Sei Shonagon

Image

“If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.”

Sei Shōnagon

Image

“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair of silver…

Sei Shōnagon

Image

“Equally disagreeable is the man who, when leaving in the middle of the night, takes care to fasten the cord of his headdress. This…

Sei Shōnagon

Image

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

Sei Shonagon

Image

“ In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful. As the light creeps over the hills, their outlines are dyed a faint…

Sei Shônagon

Image

“ 64. Surprising and Distressing Things While one is cleaning a decorative comb, something catches in the teeth and the comb breaks. A carriage…

Sei Shonagon

Image

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

Sei Shonagon

Image

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked.

Sei Shonagon

Image

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first…

Sei Shonagon

Image

“In spring, it is the dawn. As the light gradually brightens the mountain edge, slightly glowing - with slender trails of clouds tinted faintly…

Sei Shōnagon

Image

Explore all 19 Sei Shonagon quotes

More Certain quotes

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

Jacques Lusseyran

Image

One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even…

Otto von Bismarck

Image

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

Alfred North Whitehead

Image

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Frank Iero

Image

Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.

Riffat Hassan

Image

I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into…

Julianne Hough

Image

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

Anonymous

Image

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an…

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Image

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose…

Stephen Breyer