67+ Cherry Blossom Quotes Represent For The Humble & Patient Beauty

When it comes to Japan – the land of the rising sun, we immediately think of cherry blossoms, also known as “Sakura”, a flower whose beauty indicates humility and patience. Cherry blossoms hold a special place in Japanese tradition, originating from a goddess in ancient Japanese literature.

For Japan, the beauty of cherry blossoms is so empowering that honor the beauty of life and character of humanity. The pastel pink or white color of the flower illustrates sophistication, elegance, a rustic and glimpsing beauty that has earned a special place in Japanese art, culture and philosophy.

Over the years, cherry blossom has inspired countless poets, writers and philosophers – Japanese and other countries to write about it. Whether to praise the beauty or write about the culture and people of Japan, they always deliver deep meanings and inspiration to the readers. Here we have 67 cherry blossom quotes about the brilliant beauty of that elegant, delicate and ephemeral flower.

Cherry Blossom Quotes That Will Unlock Your True Potential

• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
• The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. — Homaro Cantu
• In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa
• You are not built to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. — Oprah Winfrey
• 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
• The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms. — Matsuo Basho
• What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. — Kobayashi Issa
• Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough. — A. E. Housman
• The Japanese school year begins in spring… so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches. — Cathy Davidson
• It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington’s cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. — Sayings
• 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
• For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. — Janet Frame
• Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom. — Matsuo Basho
• 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
• 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
• It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
• Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again. — Ikkyu
• From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. — Matsuo Basho
• 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
• When 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
• I have a pretty good memory, 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
• 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
• If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring. — Ariwara no Narihira
• 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
• Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring – these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration. — Yoshida Kenko
• If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun! — Motoori Norinaga
• The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention. — Junichiro Tanizaki
• The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries. — Homaro Cantu
• My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms — will it return to my body when they scatter? — Kotomichi

Cherry Blossoms Quotes You Should Know

• It looks like rain in Cherry Blossom Lane The sunshine of your smile’s no longer there It looks like rain in Cherry Blossom Lane Your golden voice no longer fills the air. — Guy Lombardo
• Sad bright eyes Are cherry blossoms Your true love Will never wake up. — Communique
• What’s your story baby? No control of what I am saying Winter leaves still make me believe No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree. — Manic Street Preachers
• Cherry blossoms are explored as symbols in Japanese art and artifacts, and in images of Japonism found in Western art. — Ann McClellan
• Cherry Blossoms Say Spring looks at the life cycle of a cherry tree, the history behind the gift of the Japanese cherry trees to our nation’s capital, and the association of cherry trees and spring. Vibrant scenes from the Cherry Blossom Festival and the flood of visitors to the Tidal Basin are balanced with shots of the natural beauty of these trees. — Jill Esbaum
• Cherry plum blossoms on the workroom bench Where we can see it all our working hours. In all my garden days of ladyhood, I never met girls who so loved sweet flowers. — Lesbia Harford
• I feel as though as I touch those cherry-blossom petals Cup the budding cherry flowers in my hands I am slowly, yet lovingly stroking Brigid’s silky pretty face. — Nobody Nose
• Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for beautiful verse as they were a reminder of life’s fickleness, she thought. — Alice Poon
• As the cherry blossoms bloom, festive picnics called hanami usher in the spring with elaborate spreads of miso salmon, mountain vegetables, colorful bento, and fresh mochi turned pink with sakura petals. — Matt Goulding
• Since ancient times, the Japanese have heralded the arrival of the cherry blossoms because they symbolize the ephemeral beauty of life. — Victoria Abbott Riccardi
• Donated by Japan, cherry blossoms grace the paths where a wall once stood in Berlin. Walls divide. Flowers unite. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
• What’s your story baby? No control of what I am saying Winter leaves still make me believe No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree. — Manic Street Preachers
• Yeah you should taste her majesty My lil’ cherry blossom Just like a crow, it cut my throat. — Paolo Nutini
• I hiked out to the country On a path of self discovery But all I found was a cherry blossom tree as I believe in harming melodies hypnotized by a silent breeze The of this cherry blossom tree. — Imaginary Cities
• Cherry blossom I can’t let you go I’m not an expert But I know you’re like gold You pop up Shine bright Then you hit the road. — Jon Vinyl
• Cherry blossom cherry blossom It’s the air that we breathe How have we forgotten what it means to be. — Haelos
• Cherry blossom is falling Cherry blossom is on its way out Hear a new word is calling It hears me too and it wants me to shout it out. — Nitzer Ebb
• The cherry blossoms have a spiritual meaning for the Japanese people. — Ann McClellan
• The ornamental cherry trees’ blossoms called sakura, are as closely associated with the image of Japan held by the rest of the world as is Mount Fuji. — Ann McClellan

Most Beautiful Cherry Blossom Quotes

• Yes, the cherry trees put this truth very plainly: none of the glory of blossoms and autumn leaves lasts long in this fleeting world. — Murasaki Shikibu
• The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention. — Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
• Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring – these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration. — Yoshida Kenkō
• If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun! — Motoori Norinaga
• I have a pretty good memory, 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
• Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom. — Matsuo Bashō
• And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze, And so the blossoms fall, and so my days. — Uejima Onitsura

Beautiful and Brilliant Quotes about Cherry Blossoms

• A cherry tree was coming into bloom, shooting out a froth of sugar-pink blossoms. She could see from its size and the gnarled branches that it was a mature tree, yet still capable of putting on such a wonderful show. A new beginning every spring, even from an old tree. — Maggie Alderson
• 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 decrepitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks. — John Burnham Schwartz
• Cherry blossoms on the tree, their scent of sweetness is divine. — Linda Winchell
• I’ve seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I’ve never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn’t have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn’t have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn’t enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance. — Lynn Austin
• Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal. — Erik Pevernagie
• Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for beautiful verse as they were a reminder of life’s fickleness, she thought. — Alice Poon
• 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 Kenkō
• One day we strolled down the Philosopher’s Path, which proved as enchanting as I had hoped in the fragrant pink bloom of spring. Since ancient times, the Japanese have heralded the arrival of the cherry blossoms because they symbolize the ephemeral beauty of life. But it isn’t just the three or four days of open flowers that stirs the senses. It is their arrival and departure. Looking at a bud about to burst open offers the pleasurable anticipation of rebirth, while the soft scattering of petals on the ground is often considered the most beautiful stage of all because it represents the death of the flowers. — Victoria Abbott Riccardi
• She made a figure so beautiful and so perfect in size that she seemed to perfume all the air around her and, to express it in terms of flowers, to put even cherry blossoms to shame. — Murasaki Shikibu
• The cherry blossom season was over, but two of His Excellency’s trees must have consented to wait, for they were in late and glorious bloom. — Murasaki Shikibu
• There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you. — Murasaki Shikibu
• Donated by Japan, cherry blossoms grace the paths where a wall once stood in Berlin. Walls divide. Flowers unite. ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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