Yann Martel, Life Of Pi Quotes

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.

I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?Doesn't that make life a story?

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.

I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.