Lu Xun Professions : Novelist Born : September 25, 1881 Died : October 19, 1936 Browse All Authors Top 49 quotes by Lu Xun Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears. Lu Xun path people way Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood. Lu Xun ink lying blood The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. Lu Xun pain mistake past Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn? Lu Xun pain sleep thinking If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere! Lu Xun speaks-out fighting men I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path. Lu Xun path dream I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. Lu Xun earth men way The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers. Lu Xun things-in-life dream people Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward. Lu Xun wheels people moving The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. Lu Xun execution tyrants government You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world. Lu Xun existential reform world Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. Lu Xun path people way Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude. Lu Xun heartfelt gratitude people True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for? Lu Xun responsibility looks thinking True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going. Lu Xun pain men people To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. Lu Xun conclusion faults time But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either. Lu Xun reform culture people Trust only him who doubts. Lu Xun trust doubt Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk. Lu Xun drunk prejudice thinking I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert. Lu Xun fighting real men Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
