--- title: "5 Lifeboat Quotes By Yann Martel" description: "5 Lifeboat quotes by Yann Martel. Plus more from Yann Martel and more Lifeboat sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/242/yann-martel-395_chess_life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life_601040.jpg" --- > [Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life-it-is-like-an-end-game-in/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/242/yann-martel-395_chess_life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life_601040.jpg) > [“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life-it-is-like-an-end-game-in-2/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1e/yann-martel-395_end-game_life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life_847761.jpg) > [Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0aa/yann-martel-395_life_life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life_1372501.jpg) > [“I kept one eye on the horizon, one eye on the other end of the lifeboat.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-kept-one-eye-on-the-horizon-one-eye-on-the-other-end-of-the-lifeboat/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/yann-martel-395_end-of-the-life_i-kept-one-eye-on-the-horizon-one-eye-on_1495518.jpg) > [Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life-it-is-like-an-end-game-in-3/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5a/yann-martel-395_arms_life-on-a-lifeboat-isn-t-much-of-a-life_2322273.jpg) ## More by Yann Martel > [“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/it-s-a-big-ocean-crossed-by-busy-ships-i-went-slowly-observing-much/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/the-word-isn-t-just-the-way-it-is-it-is-how-we-understand-it-no-and/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/remember-that-your-days-on-this-earth-are-counted-and-you-might-as/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-must-say-a-word-about-fear-it-s-is-life-s-only-true-opponent-only/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-was-not-wounded-in-any-part-of-my-body-but-i-had-never-experienced/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/high-calls-low-and-low-calls-high-i-tell-you-if-you-were-in-such-dire/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/or-rather-since-christians-are-so-fond-of-capital-letters-a-story/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/progress-is-unstoppable-it-is-a-drumbeat-to-which-we-must-all-march/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/there-are-always-those-who-take-it-upon-themselves-to-defend-god-as/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-never-had-problems-with-my-fellow-scientists-scientists-are-a/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/for-evil-in-the-open-is-but-evil-from-within-that-has-been-let-out/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/books-are-something-social-a-writer-speaking-to-a-reader-so-i-think/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/nothing-beats-reason-for-keeping-tigers-away-but-be-excessively/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“Uvek ima onih koji uzmu za pravo da brane Boga, kao da je Poslednja stvarnost, kao da je temeljni ram postojanja nešto slabašno i…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/uvek-ima-onih-koji-uzmu-za-pravo-da-brane-boga-kao-da-je-poslednja/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) > [“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/the-reason-death-sticks-so-closely-to-life-isn-t-biological-necessity/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lifeboat/yann-martel/#itemlist", "name": "5 Lifeboat Quotes By Yann Martel", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. 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