Han Suyin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
-- Han Suyin

#Inspirational #Strength #Witty
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
-- Han Suyin

#Hurt #May #Cures
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
-- Han Suyin

#Solitude #Frightened #Humans
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
-- Han Suyin

#Hate #Years #Emotion
The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.
-- Han Suyin

#Wine #Soul #Doe
with some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal ...
-- Han Suyin

#Betrayal #People #Infidelity
And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.
-- Han Suyin

#Kindness #Stronger #World
It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
-- Han Suyin

#Unique #Thinking #Lovers
Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
-- Han Suyin

#Essence #Loved Ones #Dear
Persecution matures young rebels.
-- Han Suyin

#Rebel #Young #Persecution
People never think about words, they only feel them.
-- Han Suyin

#Thinking #People #Feels
No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear ...
-- Han Suyin

#Blow #Events #Generations
Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.
-- Han Suyin

#Events #Different #Outcomes
We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.
-- Han Suyin

#Vulnerable
History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
-- Han Suyin

#Wall #Ignorance #Past
Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging ...
-- Han Suyin

#History #Way #Flow
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.
-- Han Suyin

#Freedom #Justice #Liberty
Sadness is so ungrateful.
-- Han Suyin

#Sadness #Ungrateful
This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.
-- Han Suyin

#Long #Done #Asia
Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
-- Han Suyin

#Flower #Moving #Goldfish
A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...
-- Han Suyin

#Family #Burial #Doings
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.
-- Han Suyin

#Race #World #Matter
One should never condemn what one cannot understand.
-- Han Suyin

#Understanding #Should
You can only understand the present age when it is past.
-- Han Suyin

#Past #Age
There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.
-- Han Suyin

#Stronger #World #Gentleness
Moralists have no place in an art gallery.
-- Han Suyin

#Art #Gallery #Moralist
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
-- Han Suyin

#Two #Solitude #Comfort
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
-- Han Suyin

#Believe #Race #World

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