Murasaki Shikibu
7 Quotes
I have never thought there was much to be said in favour of dragging on long after all one’s friends were dead.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air.
— Murasaki Shikibu
Though the snow-drifts of Yoshino were heaped across his path, doubt not that whither his heart is set, his footsteps shall tread out their way.
— 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
The truth is I now find that I have not the slightest pleasure in the society of any but a few indispensable friends. They must be people who really interest me, with whom I can talk seriously on serious subjects, and with whom I am brought into contact without effort on my side in the natural course of everyday existence.
— Murasaki Shikibu
You had best be quick, if you are ever going to forgive me at all; life does not last forever.
— Murasaki Shikibu
But even in the discourses which Buddha in his bounty allowed to be recorded, certain passages contain what the learned call Up¯aya or “Adapted Truth†….
— Murasaki Shikibu