‘The Untamed’: Quotes to live your fantasy life by

The Chinese drama The Untamed has stolen our hearts (and our weekends!). We have become completely enraptured with the fantasy series picked up by Netflix. Based on the web novel Mo Dao Zu Shi (translated as Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, The Untamed is full of action, breathtaking cinematography, and a slow-burning romance. We can’t turn it off.

Have you noticed that once you’re all-in on a bingeworthy show you can’t get it out of your head at all? That’s how we’re feeling about The Untamed right now. So we’ve taken our obsession and compiled some of the very best quotes from the series, or the book. These bring us right back into the story, and the lessons we learned from it.

The Untamed on judgment

“Let the self judge the right and the wrongs, let others decide to praise or to blame and let the losses and gains remain uncommented on.”
—Wei Wu Xian

“Wei Wu Xian! Don’t you understand? When you’re standing on their side, you’re the bizarre genius, the miraculous hero, the force of the rebellion, the flower that blooms alone. But the second your voice differs from theirs, you’ve lost your mind, you’ve ignored morality, you’ve walked the crooked path. You think you can be immune to all those condemnations as you stay outside of the world and do whatever you want? No such precedent has happened before!”
—Jiang Cheng

“Why would a living person worry about what happens after they die? I’ll just live freely for as long as possible.”
—Wei Wu Xian

The Untamed on tackling Challenges

Nobody would remain at the top for all of eternity — legends are only legends.
—Prologue

“I don’t care about anybody’s open road, my only choice is a log bridge to devil.” 
—Wei Wu Xian

“If there’s a hope, then let’s move.” 
—Wei Wu Xian

“Everything was the same as before. Yet, it was because of how everything was the same as before that it tormented the heart.”
墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 (Mo Dao Zu Shi)

The Untamed on yearning

“I want to bring a person back to the hidden heaven, just bring him back, and hide him.”  – Lan Wang Ji

“For 13 years I wait for you. For 13 years, I play Inquiry for you, in hope that I could reach out for you—in hope that I could still talk to you. You never answer me back. All these questions in me left unanswered, all these feelings left unresolved. Why won’t you answer me back? Wei Ying, will you come back?” 
— Lan Wang Ji

“Daozhang, you wouldn’t forget me, would you? Let’s wait and see.”
—Xue Yang

The Untamed on the complexities of love

“I’ve lied to countless people and have destroyed countless more. Just as you’ve said, murdering my father, my brother, my wife, my son, my master, my friends—There’s not a single sin left in this world that I haven’t committed! But you, only you, I’ve never ever wanted to harm you!”
—Jin Guang Yao

“I used to think of you as my soulmate.”
“I still am.”
—Lan Wang Ji/ Wei Wu Xian

“If the face says nothing, listen to the heartbeat.”
— Lan Wang Ji