Sabi Quotes

#1. There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

Matsuo Basho

#3. Then I close my eyes, and I imagine a world where I sabi and you sabi that we are okay, as we are.

Diane Brown

#4. Sabi nila, 'When you know what you deserve, you don't look back.'

Nikki Gil

#5. The hell I care with your flavor of the month?' Sabi ko. Yeah, yun yung girlfiend niya which I consider his flavor of the month. Or should I say, flavor of the week? Ang bilis niya kasing magpalit ng babae, well I'm the only exception! Hahaha!" - Arkisha

Ruth Mendoza

#6. To feel sabi is to feel keenly one's own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular moment as William Blake did "infinity in the palm of your hand" - to feel it precise and almost-weightless as a sand grain, yet also vast.

Jane Hirshfield

#7. The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

Peggy Orenstein

#8. Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

J.A. Pak

#9. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Toni Morrison

#10. She looked to the open window, to the world beyond. For the first time in a long while, she heard the song of a northern wind, calling he rhome, And she was not afraid.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. The only cure for love, is love.

T. Scott McLeod

#12. I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

Agyness Deyn

#13. Fill in?" she demanded. "For the weekend?" She winced as if each of these words were causing her pain. "I am afraid we do not handle that sort of thing." By that she implied that I had requested a stripper straight from the Casbah. So

Rhys Bowen

#14. Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Erma Bombeck

#15. India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development.

Narendra Modi

#16. Writing is a provocation.

Marty Rubin

#17. Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#18. They say that time is the fire in which we burn.

Malcolm McDowell

#19. I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Jerzy Kosinski

#20. But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds sprout? When everything turns into compost?

Leonard Koren

#21. Woe to him who doesn't know this Christian faith is bourgeois.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#22. We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

Douglas Trumbull

#23. The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.

Jack Gilbert

#24. Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.

Leonard Koren