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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 20035fe | It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap. | Yann Martel | ||
| 1a83b70 | And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8daf406 | That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. | Yann Martel | ||
| ea0d988 | The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. | philosophy religion theology zoology | Yann Martel | |
| 25318c6 | It is true that those we meet can change us | Yann Martel | ||
| 0d22982 | Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything. | Yann Martel | ||
| 2d1fe6c | lbw's yHbW lSHb@, wljnwn ylby lnd. | Yann Martel | ||
| 411f95e | For example--I wonder--could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. | endings pi | Yann Martel | |
| db020b5 | This was all a bit much for me. The tone was right--loving and brave--but the details seemed bleak. I said nothing. It wasn't for fear of angering Mr. Kumar. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man. | Yann Martel | ||
| bacb930 | Religion?" Mr. Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness." | Yann Martel | ||
| 60bb2fa | 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. | Yann Martel | ||
| 5697b67 | And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change--the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black--the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In f.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 19a4f84 | To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation | Yann Martel | ||
| 9459057 | I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination. | Yann Martel | ||
| f67dcd8 | A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. | Yann Martel | ||
| d1b74f8 | a problem of the soul, a heaviness of the heart, a darkness of the conscience | Yann Martel | ||
| 0826e61 | Ha mi, allampolgarok nem tamogatjuk muveszeinket, akkor felaldozzuk kepzeletunket a durva valosag oltaran, s vegul mar nem hiszunk semmiben, es ertektelen almokat almodunk. | Yann Martel | ||
| 3118cdd | Es ez meg semmi. Mindig akadnak olyanok, akik felvallaljak, hogy megvedik Istent, mintha a Vegso Valosag, a let fenntarto kerete gyenge es tehetetlen volna. Ezek az emberek elmennek egy lepra torzitotta no mellett, aki par fillerert koldul, elmennek a rongyokba oltozott, utcan lako gyerekek mellett, es azt gondoljak: ,,Hat igen, ez mar csak igy van." De ha felfigyelnek valami Isten elleni apro serelemre, az mar egeszen mas ugy. Az arcuk kiv.. | Yann Martel | ||
| a293f1a | Miert koltoznek el az emberek? Mi veszi ra oket, hogy feltepjek gyokereiket es elhagyjanak mindent, amit ismernek, a latohataron tuli ismeretlenert? Miert masszak meg a formasagoknak e Mount Everestjet, amitol az ember koldusnak erzi magat? Miert lepnek be ebbe a dzsungelbe, ahol minden uj, idegen es nehez? A valasz ugyanaz az egesz vilagon: az emberek a jobb elet remenyeben koltoznek el. | Yann Martel | ||
| 71e90a3 | You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. | Yann Martel | ||
| 87cbae0 | The word 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? | Yann Martel | ||
| f82268f | I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her. | fear | Yann Martel | |
| 656de17 | That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4e928e0 | 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 Martel | ||
| 4d77d11 | there's sunlight and shade, spots and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere-so you don't make out what is right in front of you. | Yann Martel | ||
| 424aec3 | Mondanom kell valamit a felelemrol. Ez az elet egyetlen igazi ellensege. Csak a felelem tudja legyozni az eletet. Okos, alattomos ellenseg, en aztan tudom. Nincs benne tisztesseg, kimelet, nem ismer torvenyt, sem illendoseget, nem ad irgalmat. Az ember leggyengebb pontjara tamad, tevedhetetlenul, konnyeden megtalalja. Mindig az agyban kezdodik. Egyik pillanatban nyugodtnak, magabiztosnak, boldognak erezzuk magunkat. Aztan a felelem, a csend.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 1d8f721 | Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. | story | Yann Martel | |
| 1255b05 | The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. 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 thee passing shadow of a cloud. | Yann Martel | ||
| e0ff6e4 | Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed. | Yann Martel | ||
| d33626e | I said nothing. It wasn't for fear of angering Mr. Kumar. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. | Yann Martel | ||
| 48db68a | I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. | Yann Martel | ||
| 0ede2b0 | Machen Sie weiter, bis das Tier, das Ihnen zusetzt - ob Tiger, ob Rhinozeros - grun vor Seekranheit ist. Sie mussen horen, wie es sich die Seele aus dem Leibe spuckt. | Yann Martel | ||
| dc62ae2 | And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and that is what they were to her for many years. when I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims" | Yann Martel | ||
| e475690 | Az emberek a kimerito, elnyuvo szorongas miatt koltoznek el. A miatt a mardoso erzes miatt, hogy mindegy, milyen kemenyen dolgoznak, erofeszitesuk nem hoz semmi eredmenyt, hogy amit egy even at felepitenek, egy nap alatt ledontik masok. A miatt a sejtelem miatt, hogy a jovo el van zarva, hogy ok meg csak boldogulhatnak, de a gyerekeik mar nem. A miatt az erzes miatt, hogy semmi sem fog valtozni, hogy boldogok es jomoduak csak mashol lehetne.. | Yann Martel | ||
| f13275e | A dolgok nem ugy alakultak, ahogy kellett volna, de mit tehet az ember? Ugy kell fogadnunk az eletet, ahogy jon, es amennyire lehet, ki kell hoznunk belole a legjobbat. | Yann Martel | ||
| 1edb523 | A vilag nem egyszeruen olyan, amilyen. Olyan, amilyennek felfogjuk, nem? S azzal, hogy valamit felfogunk, valamit hozza is teszunk, nem igaz? Nem valik-e ettol tortenette az elet is? | Yann Martel | ||
| ef8f113 | Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that...is that...well, it's hard to tell - doesn't he have long hair? - oh, he's gone. | Yann Martel | ||
| f790505 | T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites. | Yann Martel | ||
| cd2f3cc | So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals of the story without animals? | Yann Martel | ||
| f8dfa65 | Nem! Nem! Nem! A szenvedesem igenis szamit. Elni akarok. Muszaj belekevernem az eletemet a vilagegyetem eletebe. Az elet egy kemlelonyilas, az egyetlen pici ut egy vegtelensegbe - hogyan hagyhatnam ki ezt a kurta, szuk pillantast, amit a vilagra vethetek? Nekem csak ez jutott! | Yann Martel | ||
| 96eb0da | Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church--and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew very little about the religion. It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools. | Yann Martel | ||
| c2e0f04 | Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. | Yann Martel | ||
| 9b41aee | While Odo has mastered the simple human trick of making porridge, Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself from the race of time and contemplate time itself. As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by a river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be. | Yann Martel | ||
| e62b1c8 | His heart is expended that way, of loving the single, particular individual. He loved Clara with every fibre of his being, but now he has nothing left. Or rather, he has learned to live with her absence, and he has no wish to fill that absence; that would be like losing her a second time. Instead he would prefer to be kind to everyone, a less personal but broader love. | kindnessss loss-of-love | Yann Martel |