--- title: "22 Way Quotes By Yann Martel" description: "22 Way quotes by Yann Martel. Plus more from Yann Martel and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fad/yann-martel-395_death_you-can-t-quantify-human-pain-the-way-yo_1033290.jpg" --- > [You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/you-can-t-quantify-human-pain-the-way-you-can-measure-out-sugar-death/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fad/yann-martel-395_death_you-can-t-quantify-human-pain-the-way-yo_1033290.jpg) > [War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/war-subjects-itself-to-transportation-in-a-way-that-we-find-acceptable/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/yann-martel-395_acceptable_war-subjects-itself-to-transportation-in_1412878.jpg) > [I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-go-to-mass-every-sunday-but-love-going-to-mosques-too-muslims-pray/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0f/yann-martel-395_beautiful_i-go-to-mass-every-sunday-but-love-going_364768.jpg) > [To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/to-me-the-research-is-a-way-of-exploring-what-it-means-to-be-alive/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/yann-martel-395_alive_to-me-the-research-is-a-way-of-exploring_949998.jpg) > [Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/artists-invent-things-as-a-way-of-telling-the-truth/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cf/yann-martel-395_art_artists-invent-things-as-a-way-of-tellin_2290681.jpg) > [You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/you-must-take-life-the-way-it-comes-at-you-and-make-the-best-of-it/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1b/yann-martel-395_cheer-up_you-must-take-life-the-way-it-comes-at-y_3024786.jpg) > [The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/the-animals-might-embody-certain-traits-we-think-of-tigers-as-being/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37e/yann-martel-395_animal_the-animals-might-embody-certain-traits_2366929.jpg) > [There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/there-is-nothing-more-satisfying-than-having-a-sentence-fall-into/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a88/yann-martel-395_fall_there-is-nothing-more-satisfying-than-ha_1112615.jpg) > [The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/the-paths-to-liberation-are-numerous-but-the-bank-along-the-way-is/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/yann-martel-395_accounts_the-paths-to-liberation-are-numerous-but_1339736.jpg) > [It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/it-is-a-vast-country-so-that-inspires-you-it-s-also-the-greatest/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/570/yann-martel-395_canada_it-is-a-vast-country-so-that-inspires-yo_2501029.jpg) > [All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/all-living-things-contain-a-measure-of-madness-that-moves-them-in-2/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fb/yann-martel-395_ability_all-living-things-contain-a-measure-of-m_1941081.jpg) > [I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-cannot-think-of-a-better-way-to-spread-the-faith-no-thundering-from/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/848/yann-martel-395_better-way_i-cannot-think-of-a-better-way-to-spread_188695.jpg) > [Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/art-is-a-gift-you-create-and-then-you-give-away-how-readers-receive/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1b/yann-martel-395_art_art-is-a-gift-you-create-and-then-you-gi_3128212.jpg) > [So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/so-tell-me-since-it-makes-no-factual-difference-to-you-and-you-can-t-2/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/yann-martel-395_animal_so-tell-me-since-it-makes-no-factual-dif_286387.jpg) > [Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/hindus-in-their-capacity-for-love-are-indeed-hairless-christians-just/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f29/yann-martel-395_capacity_hindus-in-their-capacity-for-love-are-in_1739981.jpg) > [What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/what-works-in-a-story-is-very-different-than-what-works-in-cinema-for/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/188/yann-martel-395_book_what-works-in-a-story-is-very-different_2175929.jpg) > [I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-am-not-a-particularly-natural-writer-i-am-not-a-person-who-can/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58f/yann-martel-395_natural_i-am-not-a-particularly-natural-writer-i_1739091.jpg) > [In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/in-a-movie-you-need-good-actors-whereas-in-a-book-you-don-t-unless/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ad/yann-martel-395_acting_in-a-movie-you-need-good-actors-whereas_3183741.jpg) > [I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-went-about-the-job-in-a-direct-way-i-took-the-hatchet-in-both-my/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/yann-martel-395_all-kinds_i-went-about-the-job-in-a-direct-way-i-t_109801.jpg) > [As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/as-for-fame-fame-felt-like-nothing-fame-was-not-a-sensation-like-love/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/yann-martel-395_being-gay_as-for-fame-fame-felt-like-nothing-fame_840200.jpg) > [Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/religion-is-just-an-alternate-way-of-reading-reality-you-read/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27a/yann-martel-395_add_religion-is-just-an-alternate-way-of-rea_1507183.jpg) > [Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/sometimes-i-got-my-majors-mixed-up-a-number-of-my-fellow-religious/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c7/yann-martel-395_agnostics_sometimes-i-got-my-majors-mixed-up-a-num_511291.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/yann-martel/#itemlist", "name": "22 Way Quotes By Yann Martel", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. 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