Murasaki Shikibu Quotes
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Murasaki Shikibu Quotes & Sayings
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Now the end has come, and I am filled with sorrow that our ways must part: the path I would rather take is the one that leads to life.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Life is full of uncertainties, perhanps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more
— Murasaki Shikibu
What need have I for a palace? Rather to lie with you where the weeds grow thick.
— Murasaki Shikibu
No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure
— Murasaki Shikibu
Even those people who have no sorrow of their own often feel melancholy from the circumstances in which they are placed.
— Murasaki Shikibu
People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
— Murasaki Shikibu
If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain.
— Murasaki Shikibu
How strange a thing is the heart of man!
— Murasaki Shikibu
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— Murasaki Shikibu
The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal
— Murasaki Shikibu
At a guess I see that you may indeed be he: the light silver dew brings to clothe in loveliness a twilight beauty flower.
— Murasaki Shikibu
The monotony stirs many bitter recollections
— Murasaki Shikibu
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Remember "the unmoored boat floats about.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Autumn is no time to lie alone
— Murasaki Shikibu
You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.
— Murasaki Shikibu
I wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Your coldness serves to emphasize my own inadequacy, and makes me feel that the best solution might be to expire.
— Murasaki Shikibu
The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart
— Murasaki Shikibu
There are as many sorts of women as there are women.
— Murasaki Shikibu
When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.
— Murasaki Shikibu
My dwelling is but a rustic cottage, but still I should like you to see, at least, the pretty mountain streamlet which waters my garden.
— Murasaki Shikibu
I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other.
— Murasaki Shikibu
It is in general the unexplored that attracts us ...
— Murasaki Shikibu
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
— Murasaki Shikibu
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
— Murasaki Shikibu
It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed
— Murasaki Shikibu
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.
— Murasaki Shikibu
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.
— Murasaki Shikibu
If like the leaf of the wisteria through which the sun darts his rays transparently you give your heart to me, I will no longer distrust you
— Murasaki Shikibu
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
— Murasaki Shikibu
A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Why do you grieve so uselessly? Every uncertainty is the result of a certainty. There is nothing in this world really to be lamented.
— Murasaki Shikibu
There is more here than meets the eye.
— Murasaki Shikibu