# Lu Xun's most famous quotes

From 'Save the children' in A Madman's Diary and the road in My Old Home to In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen and Self-Mockery: Lu Xun's most quoted lines, each with its source.

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- Nov 5, 2020 · frame24_lost
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## Top 12

1. **In fact there were no roads on earth; when many people walk the same way, it becomes a road.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — My Old Home (1921).
2. **Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Self-Mockery (1932).
3. **Hidden in my little tower, a world of my own, I care not whether it's winter, summer, spring or autumn.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Self-Mockery (1932).
4. **The true warrior dares to face the bleakness of life and to look squarely at dripping blood.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen (1926).
5. **Silence, silence! Unless we burst out of the silence, we shall perish in it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen (1926).
6. **It has always been so — does that make it right?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Madman's Diary (1918).
7. **Perhaps there are still children who have not eaten men? Save the children…** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The end of A Madman's Diary (1918).
8. **Everything must be studied before it can be understood.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Madman's Diary (1918).
9. **Pity for their misfortune, anger at their failure to fight back.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — On the Power of Mara Poetry (1907); usually shortened to 'pity their misfortune, resent their passivity'.
10. **I send my thoughts to the cold stars, unheeded; I offer my blood to the Yellow Emperor.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Inscription on My Portrait (1903).
11. **Dissatisfaction is the wheel of progress that carries discontented humanity forward.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Random Thoughts No. 61 (1919).
12. **What genius? I just spend the time others spend drinking coffee on work.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Recalled by Xu Guangping in her afterword to the Complete Works (1938).

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