Geisha Quotes

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  • Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.125, Random House
  • 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.

    Eye   Artist   Deep Water  
    "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. 2005.
  • From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

    Men   Giving   Dancer  
  • At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

    Death   Loss   Three  
  • 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.

    "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
  • We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

    Kindness   World   Should  
  • Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House
  • My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

    Mother   Water   Stones  
  • Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

    Beautiful   Geisha   Ifs  
  • Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

    Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.149, Pan Macmillan
  • 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.

    "A talk with Arthur Golden". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 23, 1999.
  • Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

    "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. December 6, 2005.
  • 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.

  • It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

    Onions   Layers   Cry  
  • There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

    Japan   Chinese   Special  
  • 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.

  • Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

    Powerful   Fire   Iron  
    "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. 2005.
  • 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.

  • The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.

    Taken   Men   Play  
  • He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

    Song   Mind   Singing  
    "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
  • I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

    Real   Wanted   Geisha  
  • I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

    Thinking   Needs   World  
  • I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

    "Memoirs Of A Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.
  • Every girl in the world should have geisha training

    Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”
  • This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

    Dream   Fire   Doe  
  • We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

    Choices   Want   Geisha  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.409, Random House
  • A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

    Beautiful   Tree   Looks  
  • If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

    Thinking   World   Geisha  
  • A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

  • A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

    Men   Mood   Geisha  
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