Han Suyin Quotes

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

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?

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

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.

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

Goldfish are flowers … flowers that move.