Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to… — 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
“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
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. — 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
“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
“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
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. — 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
“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
“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
“Things didn't turn out the way they were suppsed to, but qhat can you do? You must take life the way it… — 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
“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
