Wu Guoguang quotes

“The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.”
-- Wu Guoguang

Source : "The Gate of Heavenly Peace". Frontline (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1995.

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“Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.”

“I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.”

“But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.”

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!”

“By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.”

“Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.”

“An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.”

“The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.”

“Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.”