“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I said nothing. It wasn't for fear of angering Mr. Kumar. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected… — 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
“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
“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 matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless… — 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
“What don’t we realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They… — 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
“I entered the church, without fear this time, for it was now my house too. I offered prayers to Christ, who is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face… — 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
“It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered… — 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
