Memories Of A Geisha Quotes

I don’t know when we’ll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can’t put the two together.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

I don’t like things held up before me that I cannot have.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn’t really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Of course, a sign doesn’t mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, ” he explained. “I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals – true equals – only when they both have equal confidence.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

Sadness was a very heavy thing.