💬 Quotes

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—Of cabbages—and kings."

"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

"Life, what is it but a dream?"

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"If any one asks me what I have done, I shall say: I have saved my country; but if any one asks me what I have done for the people, I shall say: Nothing."

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"We lead our lives like water flowing down from the hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course."

"Gion is a world built on illusion. And yet, the only way to survive in it is to become a master of that illusion."

"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none left. No hopes. Nothing remains."

"A geisha cannot know love; love is against our tradition. We are selling our skills, not ourselves. We create another secret world."

"Perhaps my life has been much happier than I knew. Even in lives of great suffering, there are moments of beauty."

"Every person in this world has a different way of carrying their sorrows; some hide them in their eyes, while others conceal them in their smiles."

"Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us."

"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."