Top 200 Liu Cixin Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The child that was human civilization had opened the door to her home and glanced outside. The endless night terrified her so much that she shuddered against the expansive and profound darkness, and shut the door firmly.”

— Liu Cixin

102. “Like those proverbial bookish men who could not even tell types of grains apart, they do not labor with their hands, and know nothing practical. They.”

— Liu Cixin

103. “Exponentials are the devils of mathematics.”

— Liu Cixin

104. “I have a dream that one day brilliant sunlight will illuminate the dark forest.”

— Liu Cixin

105. “Earth civilization had a way to transmit at the level of a Kardashev Type II civilization.”

— Liu Cixin

106. “Human civilization now possessed a mirror in the universe, through which humanity gained a new understanding of itself through a novel perspective.”

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107. “In one remote corner of the vast sea of information on the Internet, there was a remote corner, and in a remote corner of that remote corner, and then in a remote corner of a remote corner of a remote corner of that remote corner – that is, in the very depths of the most remote corner of all – a virtual world came back to life.”

— Liu Cixin

108. “Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish.”

— Liu Cixin

109. “I’ve got to learn how to live. If I can’t swing that, it’ll be a damn shame,” Luo.”

— Liu Cixin

110. “Saving a species of bird or insect is no different from saving humankind. ‘All lives are equal’ is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism.”

— Liu Cixin

111. “The creation myths of the various peoples and religions of the world pale when compared to the glory of the big bang.”

— Liu Cixin

112. “Dr. Ding, would you please show Yang Dong’s note to Professor Wang?”

— Liu Cixin

113. “It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race. This thought determined the entire direction of Ye’s life.”

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114. “When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your father how much the boy earned each day. After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents.”

— Liu Cixin

115. “Pan-Species Communism. It’s an ideology I invented. Or maybe you can call it a faith. Its core belief is that all species on Earth are created equal.”

— Liu Cixin

116. “Germany, your shroud’s on our loom; and in it we weave the threefold doom... We weave; we weave.”

— Liu Cixin

117. “The assembly fell into a prolonged silence. Ahead of them stretched the leaden road of time, terminating somewhere in the mists of the future, where all they could see were flickering flames and luster of blood. The brevity of a human lifespan tormented them as never before, and their hearts soared above the vault of time to join with their descendants and plunge into blood and fire in the icy cold of space, the eventual meeting place for the souls of all soldiers.”

— Liu Cixin

118. “Perhaps the outside world really was something akin to a quantum state, and did not exist unless he observed it.”

— Liu Cixin

119. “He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.”

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120. “Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science fiction should be the literary genre most accessible to readers of different nations. Science fiction often describes a day when humanity will form a harmonious whole, and I believe the arrival of such a day need not wait for the appearance of extraterrestrials.”

— Liu Cixin

121. “The biggest barrier to reanimating a flash-frozen body is preventing cell damage from ice crystals during the process. It’s like what happens to frozen tofu: When you defrost it, it turns into a sponge. Oh, I guess most of you haven’t head frozen tofu.′ The expert, who was Chinese, smiled at the confused Western faces around him.”

— Liu Cixin

122. “The ETO concluded that the common people did not seem to have the comprehensive and deep understanding of the highly educated about the dark side of humanity.”

— Liu Cixin

123. “Why are you all like this?” Evans suddenly became furious. “Why does one have to save people to be considered a hero? Why is saving other species considered insignificant? Who gave humans such high honors? No, humans do not need saving. They’re already living much better than they deserve.”

— Liu Cixin

124. “Fundamentally, Tianming was not suited to live in society, nor out of it. He lacked the ability to thrive in society, but also the resources to ignore it. All he could do was hang on to the edge, suffering. He had no idea where he was headed in life.”

— Liu Cixin

125. “I didn’t have a good impression of the tourists and pilgrims. The tourists had no idea what they were looking at, only running around to snap pictures.”

— Liu Cixin

126. “The past was like a handful of sand you thought you were squeezing tightly, but which had already run out through the cracks between your fingers. Memory was a river that had run dry long ago, leaving only scattered gravel in a lifeless riverbed. He had lived life always looking out for the next thing, and whenever he had gained, he had also lost, leaving him with little in the end.”

— Liu Cixin

127. “But for this mass struggle session, the victims were the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities. These were the enemies of every faction, and they had no choice but to endure cruel attacks from every side.”

— Liu Cixin

128. “The most surprising aspect of the Earth-Trisolaris Movement was that so many people had abandoned all hope in human civilization, hated and were willing to betray their own species, and even cherished as their highest ideal the elimination of the entire human race, including themselves and their children.”

— Liu Cixin

129. “Right then, at the frequency of 12000 MHz, the sun was the brightest star in the entire Milky Way.”

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130. “English, formerly the most widely used language, and Chinese, spoken by the largest population, had blended with each other without distinction to become the world’s most powerful language. Luo Ji learned later that the other languages of the world were undergoing the same fusion.”

— Liu Cixin

131. “Lao Yang told him that sixty, like sixteen, was the best time in life, an age where the burdens of one’s forties and fifties had been laid down, but the slowdown and illness of the seventies and eighties had not yet arrived.”

— Liu Cixin

132. “This is the difference between an ordinary scribe and a literary writer. The highest level of literary creation is when the characters in a novel possess life in the mind of the writer. The writer is unable to control them, and might not even be able to predict the next action they will take. We can only follow them in wonder to observe and record the minute details of their lives like a voyeur.”

— Liu Cixin

133. “The most conspicuous of the group was Zhu Hanyang, a software magnate whose Orient 3000 Operating System was replacing the outdated Microsoft Windows system all across the globe.”

— Liu Cixin

134. “She didn’t want to comment on the way things were – there was nothing worthwhile to say.”

— Liu Cixin

135. “It’s easy to be led to the abyss.”

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136. “The explosive development of technology was analogous to the grown of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body. He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power.”

— Liu Cixin

137. “It’s very interesting: The inside heats up first while the outside remains cold.”

— Liu Cixin

138. “To your mind, a nuclear bomb is detonated and then explodes, but the actual process is more like burning. The greater the yield, the longer the combustion. A twenty-megaton nuclear explosion, for example, has a fireball that can last for over twenty seconds.”

— Liu Cixin

139. “I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.”

— Liu Cixin

140. “Only the phosphorescence of the planet’s liquid helium and hydrogen, diffused through the thick atmosphere, formed patches of hazy light roving about like eyeballs behind the closed eyelids of a dreamer.”

— Liu Cixin

141. “You know how the joke goes: On the way to the execution ground, a condemned criminal complained that it was going to rain, and the executioner said, ‘What have you got to worry about? We’re the ones who’ve got to go back through it!”

— Liu Cixin

142. “Let’s go drinking and then go back to sleep like good bugs.”

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143. “But from the perspective of aesthetics, I must be right and the universe must be wrong.”

— Liu Cixin

144. “Now you know the goal of this game: to use our intellect and understanding to analyze all phenomena until we can know the pattern of the sun’s movement. The survival of civilization depends on it.”

— Liu Cixin

145. “Even Coca-Cola probably tasted medicinal the first time you tried it. Anything addictive is like that.”

— Liu Cixin

146. “Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.”

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147. “The universe is but a corpse puffing up.”

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148. “As the elderly passed away, the departed Golden Shore vanished into the smoke of history. The ship of human civilization floated alone in the vast ocean, surrounded on all sides by endless, sinister waves, and no one knew if there even was an opposite shore.”

— Liu Cixin

149. “In this world, can everyone be dehydrated and rehydrated?”

— Liu Cixin

150. “The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.”

— Liu Cixin