110 Quotes by Gao Xingjian

If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It’s only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.

It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Once the buttons are undone, you know how it’ll all end. It’s all in the game, there are no miracles.

Maybe there isn’t a God after all, maybe there’s only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

Men always look differently at women, even if it’s not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice.

Sitting at rest know not to discuss the shortcomings of other people Setting out on a journey fully appreciate the beauty of the dragon river.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person’s existence.

When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there’ll be something for old age and a little left over for the next generation?