Top 10 Wu Ming-Yi Quotes (2024 Update)

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “The love of old things is a way of respecting time.”

1. “The love of old things is a way of respecting time.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “Each piece of trash that floated here seems to have brought a story with it across the sea, because anything that’s been thrown away has its own tale.”

2. “Each piece of trash that floated here seems to have brought a story with it across the sea, because anything that’s been thrown away has its own tale.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “I read Hans Christian Andersen when I was young and don’t recall a single tale that wasn’t heavy. And that was how I got a feel for, you know, the one-legged little tin soldier who could never catch up with the ballerina he was courting. If you can accept that – that some things aren’t meant to be, that you can’t get all you want – you can be more accepting in your own life.”

3. “I read Hans Christian Andersen when I was young and don’t recall a single tale that wasn’t heavy. And that was how I got a feel for, you know, the one-legged little tin soldier who could never catch up with the ballerina he was courting. If you can accept that – that some things aren’t meant to be, that you can’t get all you want – you can be more accepting in your own life.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this island. It is like rain, like the heart of a woman.”

4. “You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this island. It is like rain, like the heart of a woman.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “It’s kind of elusive, whatever it is that’s communicated through the skin. It’s hard to describe, but you know it when you feel it. You can sometimes tell whether another person loves you or not, just by touch.”

5. “It’s kind of elusive, whatever it is that’s communicated through the skin. It’s hard to describe, but you know it when you feel it. You can sometimes tell whether another person loves you or not, just by touch.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “Perhaps because I don’t think he can completely understand me, I often feel like talking to him.”

6. “Perhaps because I don’t think he can completely understand me, I often feel like talking to him.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “The first time I ever saw an elephant I was literally scared stiff. To think there could be a living creature as hard as a rock and as strong as a river, a creature whose nose was so nimble it could pick up nuts and yet powerful enough to whack over great trees.”

7. “The first time I ever saw an elephant I was literally scared stiff. To think there could be a living creature as hard as a rock and as strong as a river, a creature whose nose was so nimble it could pick up nuts and yet powerful enough to whack over great trees.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “Sometimes I think that in the end all art is selfish, that it won’t necessarily change other people’s minds-but whatever it changes, you yourself knows best.”

8. “Sometimes I think that in the end all art is selfish, that it won’t necessarily change other people’s minds-but whatever it changes, you yourself knows best.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.”

9. “So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “The moment a man traverses a mountain range on a bicycle, he is like the first Mongolian you ever lept onto a wild horse on the steppe – a rearing, snorting, bucking creature no one had ever thought to tame, because taming it would be on thinkable. The rider’s body senses the Earth moving underfoot, a sensation humans have never known before, and which remains impossible to measure.”

10. “The moment a man traverses a mountain range on a bicycle, he is like the first Mongolian you ever lept onto a wild horse on the steppe – a rearing, snorting, bucking creature no one had ever thought to tame, because taming it would be on thinkable. The rider’s body senses the Earth moving underfoot, a sensation humans have never known before, and which remains impossible to measure.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “The time has come. I really feel I must relinquish my former identity. I have to try to make a change, or I will feel that I have lived my life in vain.”

11. “The time has come. I really feel I must relinquish my former identity. I have to try to make a change, or I will feel that I have lived my life in vain.”

Wu Ming-Yi Quote: “I also hate cyclists posing in sunglasses and all the pro gear, thinking they’re cool when they couldn’t even pedal up the modest slope of Yang-teh Boulevard. You know the type: guy with a bulging gut who parks his expensive bike by the side of the road to show it off. Whenever I see a guy like that, I hope his chain falls off. Or that he gets a flat or a broken spoke.”

12. “I also hate cyclists posing in sunglasses and all the pro gear, thinking they’re cool when they couldn’t even pedal up the modest slope of Yang-teh Boulevard. You know the type: guy with a bulging gut who parks his expensive bike by the side of the road to show it off. Whenever I see a guy like that, I hope his chain falls off. Or that he gets a flat or a broken spoke.”

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