black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?

Yann Martel

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
YANN MARTEL

Change Humanity Long Office
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
YANN MARTEL

Connected Men People Sea
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
YANN MARTEL

Gloomy Left Suffering
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
YANN MARTEL

Believe God Stories
I 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 moving.
YANN MARTEL

Brother Children Moving Presence
I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
YANN MARTEL

Deathbed Light Self White
There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
YANN MARTEL

Fall Feels Sentence Way
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
YANN MARTEL

Beens City Evil People
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
YANN MARTEL

Far Leap Science
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 with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
YANN MARTEL

Dream Goodbye Heart
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
YANN MARTEL

Transportation War Way
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
YANN MARTEL

Beating Felt Rainbow
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
YANN MARTEL

Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
YANN MARTEL

Art Book Inspired
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
YANN MARTEL

Hope might Thinking
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
YANN MARTEL

Language Perfection Sea Water

You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Yann Martel Quotes