If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.
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 unbearab...
I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see...
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enou...
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you ca...
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
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...
I found myself wondering if she'd started life much as I had. It made no difference that she was a mean old woman and I was just a struggling little girl. Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone...
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
El cuarto de Hatsumono era el más grande de la okiya; ocupaba más espacio que toda mi casa de Yoroido. No
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see...