Lu Xun People Quotations

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

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.

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

Why should young people look for guides who hang out gided placards to advertise themselves? They would do better to look for friends, unite with them, and advance together towards some quarter where it seems possible to survive.

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.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

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.

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

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.