Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Some of us give up[…] with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of… — 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… — 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
“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
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching.… — 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
![“Some of us give up[…] with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success.” quote by Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe7/yann-martel-395_hope_some-of-us-give-up-with-only-a-resigned_683332.jpg)
