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Top 20 Han Suyin Quotes (2025 Update)

Han Suyin Quote: “Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.”

1. “Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.”

Han Suyin Quote: “We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.”

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

Han Suyin Quote: “Moralists have no place in an art gallery.”

3. “Moralists have no place in an art gallery.”

Han Suyin Quote: “And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.”

4. “And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.”

Han Suyin Quote: “People never think about words, they only feel them.”

5. “People never think about words, they only feel them.”

Han Suyin Quote: “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.”

6. “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 Quote: “Sadness is so ungrateful.”

7. “Sadness is so ungrateful.”

Han Suyin Quote: “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.”

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

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

Han Suyin Quote: “Persecution matures young rebels.”

10. “Persecution matures young rebels.”

Han Suyin Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “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.”

12. “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 Quote: “Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.”

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

Han Suyin Quote: “People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.”

14. “People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.”

Han Suyin Quote: “You can only understand the present age when it is past.”

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

Han Suyin Quote: “Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.”

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

Han Suyin Quote: “A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings...”

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

Han Suyin Quote: “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?”

18. “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 Quote: “It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.”

19. “It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.”

Han Suyin Quote: “One should never condemn what one cannot understand.”

20. “One should never condemn what one cannot understand.”

Han Suyin Quote: “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.”

21. “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 Quote: “Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging...”

22. “Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging...”

Han Suyin Quote: “She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people’s rooms, always I was the one to ask for love.”

23. “She alone would do a mad and wonderful thing like that, ringing me up. No one else ever did things like that for me. I always had had to do the ringing up and the asking, and going to people’s rooms, always I was the one to ask for love.”

Han Suyin Quote: “Whatever has happened, there is always that magic winter haunting and hurting me with its marvelous echoes. The shortest days of the year, when nothing had begun and nothing had ended, all the roads of life were alive, and time beat round me like a heart.”

24. “Whatever has happened, there is always that magic winter haunting and hurting me with its marvelous echoes. The shortest days of the year, when nothing had begun and nothing had ended, all the roads of life were alive, and time beat round me like a heart.”

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