Yann Martel Quotes about Pain

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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

Yann Martel

Pain, Empathy, Skins

"Yann Martel: 'Jewish people don't own the Holocaust'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2010.

I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.

Yann Martel

Goodbye, Dream, Pain

Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

Yann Martel

Dog, Atheist, Pain

Yann Martel (2012). “Self”, p.12, Vintage Canada

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

Yann Martel

Pain, Long, Joy

Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.123, Vintage Canada

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Yann Martel

Sad, Pain, Unbearable

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

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

Yann Martel

Pain, Blessed, Heart

How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long. What do you know about the sea? Nothing. What do I know about the sea? Nothing. Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion-- It should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view. Oh enough of this disembling. Let me say plainly: I love you, I love you, I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you. Not the spiders, please.

Yann Martel

Pain, Love You, Views

"Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.