Yann MartelStories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals. 373HumanityLifeReading
Yann MartelReligion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness. ✨ Yann Martel (2009). Life of Pi, p.29, Vintage Canada351Life
Yann MartelI turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard. ✨ Yann Martel (2009). Life of Pi, p.110, Vintage Canada351Life
Yann MartelIt was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it … ▶351LifeReading
Yann MartelIn my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.373Thought
Yann MartelIf you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood. ✨ Yann Martel (2012). Life Of Pi, Illustrated, p.114, Canongate Books351LifeReadingThought
Yann MartelMisery loves company, and madness calls it forth. ✨ Yann Martel (2009). Life of Pi, p.269, Vintage Canada362LifeLove
Yann MartelWe believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?362Truth
Yann MartelIf Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move o… ▶352LifePhilosophyReading
Yann MartelYou can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say? ✨ Yann Martel (2012). Life Of Pi, Illustrated, p.321, Canongate Books374LifeReading
Yann MartelI know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat … ▶341LifeReadingTruth
Yann MartelMy ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered. ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustra… ▶364LifeReading
Yann MartelBooks, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them. ✨ Yann… ▶332HumanityLoveReading
Yann MartelI cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to s… ▶354HopeLifePolitics
Yann MartelQuickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you. ✨ Y… ▶321HopeLifeReading
Yann MartelThe worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. ✨ Yann Martel (2009). Life of Pi, p.240, Vintage Canada332LifeTime
Yann MartelI think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. ✨ May Richard Parker be always at your side. The Guardian Interview,… ▶365Thought
Yann MartelThe presence of God is the finest of rewards. ✨ Yann Martel (2009). Life of Pi, p.69, Vintage Canada333Life
Yann MartelThe lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. ✨ Yann Martel (2009). Life of Pi, p.314, Vintage Canada333LifeThought
Yann MartelLife on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. ✨ Yann Martel … ▶333LifeReading
Yann MartelI explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory. ✨ Yann Martel (2012). Life Of Pi, Illustrated, p.38, Canongate Books322LifeReading
Yann MartelHow 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? Not… ▶345LifeLoveReading
Yann MartelI wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very mov… ▶345Sadness
Yann MartelThese people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil… ▶323HumanityLifeLove
Yann MartelThat's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? ✨ Yann Martel (2012). Life Of Pi, Illustrated, p.… ▶301LifeReadingTruth
Yann MartelIf we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. … ▶301LifeReadingTruth
Yann MartelHow long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter? ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrate… ▶367LifeReading
Yann MartelThe reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. ✨ Yann Martel (2012). Life Of Pi, Illustrated, p.19, Canongate Books334DeathLifeReading
Yann MartelMy alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions. ✨ Yann Martel (2012). Life Of Pi, Illustrated, p.29, Canongate Books334LifeReading
Yann MartelFanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. ✨ Third time lucky. Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.thegua… ▶334HopeTime
