Life Of Pi Book Quotes by Yann Martel and many others.
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
Why can’t reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there’s so little fish to catch?
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.
I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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?
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
Religion is more than rite and ritual.
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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?
If 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 on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they’ve known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? … The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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