33 Memories Of A Geisha Quotes

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Geisha Quotes

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. — Arthur Golden

She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret. — Arthur Golden

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. — Arthur Golden

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. — Arthur Golden

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training. — Diana Vreeland

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction. — Arthur Golden

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. — Arthur Golden

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. — Ziyi Zhang

I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it. — Colleen Atwood

More Memories Of A Geisha Quotes

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. — Arthur Golden

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. — Arthur Golden

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. — Arthur Golden

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. — Arthur Golden

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden

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

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

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain. — Arthur Golden

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. — Arthur Golden

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. — Arthur Golden

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. — Arthur Golden

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. — Arthur Golden

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden

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. — Arthur Golden

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal? — Arthur Golden

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. — Arthur Golden

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? — Arthur Golden

Sadness was a very heavy thing. — Arthur Golden

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have. — Arthur Golden

I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them. — Arthur Golden

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

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. — Arthur Golden

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