Izumi Shikibu quotes

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Sad #Flames #Rivers

In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Color #World #Body

Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as sweet.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Song #Sweet #Past

Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Teaching #Heart #Voice

The one close to me now; even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Clouds #Different #Floating

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Moon #Sky #Midnight

Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Flower #Fall #Dew

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.
-- Izumi Shikibu

#Bells #Never Forget #Longing

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.