Lu Xun's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: In fact there were no roads on earth; when many people walk the same way, it becomes a road. · Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children. · Hidden in my little tower, a world of my own, I care not whether it's winter, summer, spring or autumn.. (Updated Nov 5, 2020.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in 简体中文). See the original
Top 12
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In fact there were no roads on earth; when many people walk the same way, it becomes a road.
My Old Home (1921).
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Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.
Self-Mockery (1932).
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Hidden in my little tower, a world of my own, I care not whether it's winter, summer, spring or autumn.
Self-Mockery (1932).
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The true warrior dares to face the bleakness of life and to look squarely at dripping blood.
In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen (1926).
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Silence, silence! Unless we burst out of the silence, we shall perish in it.
In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen (1926).
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It has always been so — does that make it right?
A Madman's Diary (1918).
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Perhaps there are still children who have not eaten men? Save the children…
The end of A Madman's Diary (1918).
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Everything must be studied before it can be understood.
A Madman's Diary (1918).
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Pity for their misfortune, anger at their failure to fight back.
On the Power of Mara Poetry (1907); usually shortened to 'pity their misfortune, resent their passivity'.
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I send my thoughts to the cold stars, unheeded; I offer my blood to the Yellow Emperor.
Inscription on My Portrait (1903).
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Dissatisfaction is the wheel of progress that carries discontented humanity forward.
Random Thoughts No. 61 (1919).
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What genius? I just spend the time others spend drinking coffee on work.
Recalled by Xu Guangping in her afterword to the Complete Works (1938).
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