Lu Xun Quotes

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in 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.

I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

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.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

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.

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?

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

Trust only him who doubts.

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

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.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

Being an actress in China, Im actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.