Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Ba Jin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chinese writer Ba Jin.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Ba Jin was a Chinese writer. In addition to his impact on Chinese literature, he also wrote three original works in Esperanto, and as a political activist he wrote The Family.

Chinese - Writer | November 25, 1904 - October 17, 2005

Source: Wikipedia

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

Ba Jin

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

Ba Jin

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

Ba Jin

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

Ba Jin

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Ba Jin

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

Ba Jin

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

Ba Jin

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Ba Jin

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Ba Jin

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

Ba Jin

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

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I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

Ba Jin