Yann Martel Life Quotations

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

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

If you stumble over mere 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? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater

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...

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

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?

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.

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?

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.