“There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“To chose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. — 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
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
“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
“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — 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? ... The… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Yes! Practice-singular!' the wise men screamed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You bring joy and pain in equal measure- come aboard if your destination is oblivion. It should be our next stop. We… — 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
“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
“Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your… — 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
“I was weeping because Richard Parker had left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell...it's important… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell you, that’s one thing I hate about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It’s important in life… — 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
“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
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — 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
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard… — 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
“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
“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
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. — 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
