110 Quotes by Gao Xingjian

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

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

In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God.