# Quote — Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

> Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

- Author: [Mo Yan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan.md)
- Book: [Red Sorghum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan/red-sorghum.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mo_Yan#Red_Sorghum:_A_Novel_of_China_(1986/1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan/red-sorghum/finally-she-mused

## More from this book

> I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan/red-sorghum/i-sometimes-think.md)

> Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan/red-sorghum/over-decades-that.md)