When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is ken to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“This, in a nutshell, is Hinduism, and I have been a Hindu all my life. With its notions in mind I see… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“A number of my fellow religious studies majors- muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I can't understand how a man who seems never to read imaginative writing of any kind (novels, poetry, short stories, high-brow, middle-brow,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“...I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“...fear...is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life...you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. ... The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“In zoos, as in nature, the best times to visit are sunrise and sunset. That is when most animals come to life.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Uvek ima onih koji uzmu za pravo da brane Boga, kao da je Poslednja stvarnost, kao da je temeljni ram postojanja nešto slabašno i… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with… — Yann Martel Copy Share
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