Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Y
  4. Yann Martel
  5. Life

Yann Martel Quotes about Life

All Yann Martel Quotes Age Children Christianity Country Darkness Doubt Earth Evil Failing Feelings Giving Goodbye Grace Hard Work Heart Imagination Joy Letting Go Life quotes Losing Memories Moon Pain Philosophy Reality Risk Salvation Sloth Suffering Survival Transportation Understanding Water Writing
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel
Life, Philosophy, Mean
Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.51, Canongate Books

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Yann Martel
Life, Believe, Love Is
Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.424, Canongate Books

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

Yann Martel
Inspirational, Life, Principles
Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.98, Canongate Books

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

Yann Martel
Life, Beautiful, Jealous
Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Yann Martel
Life, Travel, Understanding
Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.428, Canongate Books

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

Yann Martel
Life, Simple, Games
Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.292, Canongate Books

You May Also Like: