Lu Xun
Lu Xun
Lu Xun, formerly also romanized Lu Hsün, was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth25 September 1881
CountryChina
trust doubt
Trust only him who doubts.
dream spoiled given
Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.
men past heaven
Let those who hanker after the past return to the past! Let those who want to leave the world leave the world! Let those who want to ascend to heaven do so! Let those whose souls want to leave their bodies expire quickly! The earth today should be inhabited by man with a firm hold on the present, a firm hold on the earth.
thinking drunk half
Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.
people together looks
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.
people way path
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.
real fighting men
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.
men way earth
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.
men existential horror
Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.
moving people wheels
Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.
fire long stones
As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.
dream things-in-life people
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.
faults conclusion defects
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
protect
To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.