Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
YANN MARTELReligion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Life 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.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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