Light and Thread Quotes

“The hope, perhaps that we can find hope

If something like that can also be called hope
Then I, too, have some hope”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“A tree holds such possibility from seed. So long as it does not die. So long as it survives. Eventually, it will grow dense and thick.”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“What might be behind that anguish? Is it that we want to put our faith in humanity, and when that faith is shaken, we feel as though our very selves are being destroyed? Is it that we want to love humanity, and this is the agony we feel when that love is shattered?
Does love beget pain, and is some pain evidence of love?”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“Having managed to live some more Will I be able to think”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“I listen to the sound of snow”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“Every day”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“I can just write again: another novel. Because that’s the only way to be connected again. But what am I being connected to”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“How difficult is it for us to remain human”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“on imagining into the first-person perspectives of the people and living beings that inhabit this planet; language that connects us to one another. Literature that deals in this language inevitably holds a kind of body heat. Just as inevitably”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“Is it that we want to put our faith in humanity”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“How are humans this violent? And yet how is it that they can simultaneously stand opposite such overwhelming violence? What does it mean to belong to the species called human? To negotiate an impossible way through the empty space between these two precipices of human horrors and human dignity”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“Can the present help the past? Can the living save the dead?”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“Could it be that by regarding the softest aspects of humanity”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“Why the world so violent and painful? Yet how can the world be this beautiful?”
― Han Kang , Light and Thread

“Annyeong, in my mother tongue
Is both a first and last greeting

Distinguishable by stress, and intonation, and context

Annyeong, nice to meet you.
Annyeong, be well.

Annyeong, we meet again.
Annyeong, let's meet again.”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread

“È l'amore a generare la sofferenza, e certe sofferenze testimoniano l'amore?”
― Han Kang, Nella notte più buia il linguaggio ci chiede di cosa siamo fatti