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Top 25 Shan Sa Quotes (2025 Update)

Shan Sa Quote: “Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.”

1. “Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.”

Shan Sa Quote: “I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?”

2. “I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?”

Shan Sa Quote: “Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.”

3. “Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.”

Shan Sa Quote: “Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.”

4. “Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.”

Shan Sa Quote: “I held in my hand an invisible sword that sliced through every illusion. The sharpness of the blade gave me its icy and dazzling strength. I no longer believed in the compassion of men; I believed in the strength of the gods. I had averted my eyes from my suffering and fixed them on the stars.”

5. “I held in my hand an invisible sword that sliced through every illusion. The sharpness of the blade gave me its icy and dazzling strength. I no longer believed in the compassion of men; I believed in the strength of the gods. I had averted my eyes from my suffering and fixed them on the stars.”

Shan Sa Quote: “I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.”

6. “I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.”

Shan Sa Quote: “Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?”

7. “Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?”

Shan Sa Quote: “I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.”

8. “I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.”

Shan Sa Quote: “I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.”

9. “I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.”

Shan Sa Quote: “The winter light, tinted by the bright colors in the street, plays on the go-board. All these festivities cut me off from the rest of the world. My loneliness is like a bolt of crimson silk stowed in the bottom of a wooden chest.”

10. “The winter light, tinted by the bright colors in the street, plays on the go-board. All these festivities cut me off from the rest of the world. My loneliness is like a bolt of crimson silk stowed in the bottom of a wooden chest.”

Shan Sa Quote: “Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.”

11. “Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.”

Shan Sa Quote: “In our time women can demonstrate prowess in a thousand ways. Long ago the great Princess Sun of Ping fought for her father, the August Sovereign. At her funeral, His Majesty called for the trumpets and drums to be sounded, an honor reserved for men. My dear, from this day you must dress her as a boy. Give her an education worthy of her own determination.”

12. “In our time women can demonstrate prowess in a thousand ways. Long ago the great Princess Sun of Ping fought for her father, the August Sovereign. At her funeral, His Majesty called for the trumpets and drums to be sounded, an honor reserved for men. My dear, from this day you must dress her as a boy. Give her an education worthy of her own determination.”

Shan Sa Quote: “I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.”

13. “I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.”

Shan Sa Quote: “Today I finally recognise the mistake that almost became my downfall: I expected too much out of life. I thought it would owe me happiness and cheerfulness. In fact, life offers neither good nor evil. Happiness is a fruit you cultivate and harvest inside your soul. You can not gain it from the outside. Why should I be fretful like a child that has got no gift? I have years ahead to be happy.”

14. “Today I finally recognise the mistake that almost became my downfall: I expected too much out of life. I thought it would owe me happiness and cheerfulness. In fact, life offers neither good nor evil. Happiness is a fruit you cultivate and harvest inside your soul. You can not gain it from the outside. Why should I be fretful like a child that has got no gift? I have years ahead to be happy.”

Shan Sa Quote: “To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.”

15. “To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.”

Shan Sa Quote: “The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.”

16. “The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.”

Shan Sa Quote: “A great emptiness had been carved out of my soul; I watched all the effervescence of the world with a derisive smile.”

17. “A great emptiness had been carved out of my soul; I watched all the effervescence of the world with a derisive smile.”

Shan Sa Quote: “I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other’s hearts and to master my own desires.”

18. “I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other’s hearts and to master my own desires.”

Shan Sa Quote: “Politicians are better liars than writers.”

19. “Politicians are better liars than writers.”

Shan Sa Quote: “Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.”

20. “Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.”

Shan Sa Quote: “I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”

21. “I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”

Shan Sa Quote: “I have written too much about lives – I feel I have lived for too long.”

22. “I have written too much about lives – I feel I have lived for too long.”

Shan Sa Quote: “Men’s freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.”

23. “Men’s freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.”

Shan Sa Quote: “Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.”

24. “Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.”

Shan Sa Quote: “A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.”

25. “A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.”

Shan Sa Quote: “A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty. He would be unable to raise his hand in punishment or to untangle the web woven by good and evil.”

26. “A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty. He would be unable to raise his hand in punishment or to untangle the web woven by good and evil.”

Shan Sa Quote: “The world in which we live is no more real than a moon beam reflected in water drawn from the palm of the hand...”

27. “The world in which we live is no more real than a moon beam reflected in water drawn from the palm of the hand...”

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