Life Of Pi Quotes

“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?”
― Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

“I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.”
― Yann Martel

“So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.”
― Yann Martel

“Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.”
― Yann Martel

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is ken to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel

“I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I know a woman here in Toronto who is very dear to my heart. She was my foster mother. I call her Auntieji and she likes that. She is Quebecoise. Though she has lived in Toronto for over thirty years, her French-speaking mind still slips on occasion on the understanding of English sounds. And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and that is what they were to her for many years. When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.”
― Yann Martel

“Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Khi ta đã chịu nhiều đau đớn ở đời, mỗi một nỗi đau mới sẽ vừa nặng trĩu mà cũng lại chẳng là gì.”
― Yann Martel, PIN-UP T4 (PIN-UP ANCIENNE EDITION, 4)

“...people move in the hope of a better life”
― Yann Martel

“Hay una gran recompensa para el ojo que observa y el oído que escucha.”
― Yann Martel

“Una casa no es más que un territorio en el que nuestras necesidades básicas se satisfacen de cerca y sin peligro.”
― Yann Martel

“Somos una nación de ingenieros que aspiran a ser reconocidos.”
― Yann Martel

“¿Por qué tolerar la oscuridad? Todo ya está aquí y está claro si sabemos mirar con la atención debida.”
― Yann Martel

“La obsesión de colocarnos en el centro de todo es la ruina tanto de los teólogos como de los zoólogos.”
― Yann Martel

“...todo contiene rastros de lo divino.”
― Yann Martel

“La primera sensación de maravilla es la que cala más hondo...”
― Yann Martel

“-¿Por qué iba a someterse Dios a algo así? ¿Por qué no dejar la muerte para los mortales? ¿Por qué tuvo que ensuciar lo que era bello, estropear la perfección?
-Por amor...”
― Yann Martel

“Once upon a time there was a banana and it grew. It grew until it was large, firm, yellow and fragrant. Then it fell to the ground and someone came upon it and ate it and afterwards that person felt better.”
― Martel, Yann

“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 to conclude things properly. Only then can you let it go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said, but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I look at it and I say, "You've got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Pijeva priča je o tome kako ispričati dojmljivu priču koja se doživljava upravo onako kako je ispričana. Homer je to znao prije tri tisuće godina. Interpretacija dojmljive priče je tupljavina, isto kao interpretacija smješka Mona Lize.”
― Vinko Vrbanic