Quotes from book

Life of Pi

“The world 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?”

“The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.”

“It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.”

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”

“I love Canada… It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.”

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

“I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.”

“Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.”

“First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.”

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.”

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”

“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”

“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”

“It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.”

“… for everything has a trace of the divine in it.”

“Christianity is a religion in a rush.”

“.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”

“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!”