Yu Hua's golden verses in "Living" are as follows:

1. People, no matter how much suffering they suffer while alive, they will find a way to comfort themselves when they are about to die.

2. I knew he wouldn’t fight me anymore, but what he said was like a dull knife cutting my neck. My head couldn’t fall off, but it hurt like hell.

3. No matter how big a life is, if you want to die, you will never survive.

4. The inner mind allows him to truly understand himself. Once he understands himself, he also understands the world.

5. As long as people live happily, they are not afraid of poverty.

6. People live for living itself, not for anything other than living.

7. As long as the family is together every day, no blessings matter.

8. A young man wanders around, a middle-aged man wants to dig, and an old man becomes a monk.

9. Don’t be confused. Even dead people want to come back to life. You, a living person, cannot die.

10. It is better to be a normal person. Fighting over this and that will cost you your own life. For someone like me, it sounds like the more I live, the less promising I become, but I live a long life. People I know die one by one, but I am still alive.