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
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things?… — 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
Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of… — 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
If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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
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 wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now… — 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
“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
