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Top 15 Yu Hua Quotes (2025 Update)

Yu Hua Quote: “As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night.”

1. “As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night.”

Yu Hua Quote: “We survive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”

2. “We survive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”

Yu Hua Quote: “It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life.”

3. “It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life.”

Yu Hua Quote: “We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date.”

4. “We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date.”

Yu Hua Quote: “At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue. I was young then and it was no easy matter to persuade my bottom to maintain such constant intimacy with my chair.”

5. “At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue. I was young then and it was no easy matter to persuade my bottom to maintain such constant intimacy with my chair.”

Yu Hua Quote: “You know how men are... always peering into the pot even when they’re eating out of the bowl.”

6. “You know how men are... always peering into the pot even when they’re eating out of the bowl.”

Yu Hua Quote: “It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui.”

7. “It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui.”

Yu Hua Quote: “The timid die of hunger, the bold of overeating.”

8. “The timid die of hunger, the bold of overeating.”

Yu Hua Quote: “It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write. Nothing in the world, perhaps, is so likely to forge a connection between people as pain, because the connection that comes from that source comes from deep in the heart.”

9. “It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write. Nothing in the world, perhaps, is so likely to forge a connection between people as pain, because the connection that comes from that source comes from deep in the heart.”

Yu Hua Quote: “Unequal lives give rise to unequal dreams.”

10. “Unequal lives give rise to unequal dreams.”

Yu Hua Quote: “Your life is given to you by your parents. If you don’t want to live, you have to ask them first.”

11. “Your life is given to you by your parents. If you don’t want to live, you have to ask them first.”

Yu Hua Quote: “My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.”

12. “My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.”

Yu Hua Quote: “My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love’s footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else – until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang.”

13. “My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love’s footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else – until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang.”

Yu Hua Quote: “Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.”

14. “Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.”

Yu Hua Quote: “People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.”

15. “People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.”

Yu Hua Quote: “Why, when discussing China today, do I always return to the Cultural Revolution? That’s because these two eras are so interrelated: even though the state of society now is very different from then, some psychological elements remain strikingly similar. After participating in one mass movement during the Cultural Revolution, for example, we are now engaged in another: economic development.”

16. “Why, when discussing China today, do I always return to the Cultural Revolution? That’s because these two eras are so interrelated: even though the state of society now is very different from then, some psychological elements remain strikingly similar. After participating in one mass movement during the Cultural Revolution, for example, we are now engaged in another: economic development.”

Yu Hua Quote: “This was a key moment in my life. I had always assumed that light carries farther than human voices and voices carry farther than body heat. But that night I realized it is not so, for when the people stand as one, their voices carry farther than light and their heat is carried farther still. That, I discovered, is what “the people” means.”

17. “This was a key moment in my life. I had always assumed that light carries farther than human voices and voices carry farther than body heat. But that night I realized it is not so, for when the people stand as one, their voices carry farther than light and their heat is carried farther still. That, I discovered, is what “the people” means.”

Yu Hua Quote: “The more boldly a man dares, the more richly his land bears.”

18. “The more boldly a man dares, the more richly his land bears.”

Yu Hua Quote: “She is like a broken pot that’s not afraid of shattering, and I’m like a dead pig who no longer minds that the water’s coming to a boil.”

19. “She is like a broken pot that’s not afraid of shattering, and I’m like a dead pig who no longer minds that the water’s coming to a boil.”

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