Yann Martel, Life Of Pi

Quotes

• “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 mos...”
• “These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think...”
• “These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct ...”
• “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...”
• “When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed ...”
• “Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But li...”
• “Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watc...”
• “I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, th...”
• “Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everythi...”
• “The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the libera...”
• “Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and ba...”
• “I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and de...”
• “It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our ...”
• “Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.”
• “You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”
• “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
• “If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”
• “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
• “..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”
• “Religion is more than rite and ritual.”