Yann Martel: Quotes about love
Yann Martel is Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi. Explore interesting quotes on love.Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 1, p. 6
Context: 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 the passing shadow of a cloud.
“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330
Context: Don't you bully me with your politeness! 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?
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 74, p. 232
Context: Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Variant: 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.
Source: Life of Pi
“Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 23, p. 76