Quotes About Cherry Blossoms

#1. Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

Fujiwara No Teika

#2. we are holding hands in the barrel of a gun. they pull the trigger, but when she is kissing me only cherry blossoms come out.

Topaz Winters

#3. Life breathed spring (haiku)
spring awakening
dance of lovers
delicately wrapped in cherry blossoms

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#4. But memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

Ruth Ozeki

#5. We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

William McDonough

#6. On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

Yoshida Kenko

#7. The Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

Cathy Davidson

#8. Cherry blossoms are more beautiful when the blood of the dead stains the flowers from grass below.

Arina Tanemura

#9. As people we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually petals fall to the ground.

Banana Yoshimoto

#10. Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

Ariwara No Narihira

#11. When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.

Andrew Wyatt

#12. However wildly
this year's cherry blossoms bloom,
I'll see them
with the plum's scent
filling my heart.

Ono No Komachi

#13. What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.

Kobayashi Issa

#14. But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.

John Dos Passos

#15. Look at the cherry blossoms!
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again.

Ikkyu

#16. From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

Matsuo Basho

#17. They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds, they breastfeed laughter.

Laura Gentile

#18. A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms, on the way to death. p136

Donna Tartt

#19. [W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.

Rajneesh

#20. For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

Janet Frame

#21. If there were no
cherry blossoms
in this world
How much more tranquil
our hearts would be in spring.

Ariwara No Narihira

#22. Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They're like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.

V.C. Andrews

#23. A goodbye at the gate," said Hobie. He seemed to be talking partly to himself. "That's what he would have wanted. The parting glimpse, the death haiku - he wouldn't have liked to leave without stopping to speak to someone along the way. 'A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms on the way to death.

Donna Tartt

#24. Washington, D.C., with its wide streets, confounding roundabouts, marble statues, Doric columns, and domes, is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms).

Paul Beatty

#25. The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#26. It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

Newt Gingrich

#27. The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [ ... ]
The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.

Sylvia Plath

#28. However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

Fujiwara No Teika

#29. To be kissed, as never before, under the falling cherry blossoms, to bridge the gap between our breath.

Cheri Bauer

#30. Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#31. Love is like a cherry blossoms ... they bloom at the first promise of the spring, they beautify even and the most grey landscape, they scatter at the first gust of the wind ...
But as they hold, when you look at them, you steal a little vew of paradise ...

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#32. I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.

Yoshida Kenko

#33. He was toxic, poison, and he was going to kill everything beautiful in my life if I let him. He was the storm to my cherry blossoms. This

L.J. Shen

#34. The oak tree:
not interested
in cherry blossoms.

Matsuo Basho

#35. Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation
and the round key of the rapid universe,
come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,
come before its petals are consumed.

Pablo Neruda

#36. Oh, sweet cherry tree-
how lovely your blossoms are.
Spring brings joy to life.

A.K. White

#37. Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

Daisaku Ikeda

#38. Soldiers falling fast
Battle of white and scarlet
Blossoms on the ground

David Kudler

#39. Today I will find something beautiful.
Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.
The dove resting near the lemon buds.
Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.
Smiling on me.
"Creating" in BREATHE IN

Eileen Granfors

#40. Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers;
But the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms.

Ikkyu

#41. Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

Ikkyu

#42. I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves.

Debasish Mridha

#43. Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

John Burnham Schwartz

#44. Due to their short bloom time, Sakura blossoms are a metaphor for life itself: beautiful yet fleeting. You'll realize when you're as old as me to hang on to the good times because they won't last forever.

Shannon Mullen

#45. Saying Dating web sites don't work
is like saying my keyboard types wrong
as it is written seek and yee shall find

Stanley Victor Paskavich