“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it ironic, Richard Parker? We’re in hell yet still we’re afraid of immortality” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The reason death sticks do closely to life isn't biological necessity-it"s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love… — 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
“Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen… — 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
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
“I still smart a little at the slight. When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the… — 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
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — 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 Image
“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 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, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
