Shōgun, Volume 2 Quotes

“Curious, Toranaga thought, how women can change like chameleons—one moment ugly, the next attractive, sometimes even beautiful, though in reality they’re not.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain . . .”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“Many times Blackthorne had looked over his shoulder expecting her there, but she was never there and never would be and this did not disturb him. She was with him forever, and he knew he would love her in the good times and in the tragic times, even in the winter of his life. She was always on the edge of his dreams. And now those dreams were good, very good,”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“On a withered branch The snow listened . . . Winter’s silence.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“Mariko-san, would you explain for me: I seem to understand now what you meant and Lord Toranaga meant about karma and the stupidity of worrying about what is. A lot seems clearer. I don’t know why—perhaps it’s because I’ve never been so terrified, maybe that’s cleaned my head, but I seem to think clearer. It’s—well, like Old Gardener. Yes, that was all my fault and I’m truly sorry, but that was a mistake, not a deliberate choice on my part. It is. So nothing can be done about it. A moment ago we were all almost dead. So all that worry and heartache was a waste, wasn’t it? Karma. Yes, I know karma now. Do you understand?”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“Sadness never pleases. Our duty is to please and to be gay.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“— Ужасно е, нали, да не можеш да имаш на никого доверие.

— А, не, Анджин-сан, много се извинявам. Това е просто едно от най-важните правила в живота — нито повече, нито по-малко.”
― Джеймс Клавел, Shōgun, Volume 2

“through the garden, dusty and sweat-soiled. He carried his huge”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don’t give way to the seven, you’re patient, then you’ll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.’ ”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“Karma is karma. Be thou of Zen. Remember, in tranquillity, that the Absolute, the Tao, is within thee, that no priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain . . .”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two

“I’d like to spirit you away, you and your strange ship at Yokohama, to Hizen, to our great harbor of Sasebo.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: Part Two