Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure drama film based on Yann Martel’s 2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, and written by David Magee, the film stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu, Adil Hussain, and Gérard Depardieu. Profoundly inspirational Life of Pi quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Life of Pi Quotes
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names. Yann Martel
The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. Yann Martel
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. Yann Martel
I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you. Yann Martel
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always so you must fight hard to express it. 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
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. Yann Martel
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. Yann Martel
Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by. Yann Martel
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. Yann Martel
I had no idea a living being could sustain so much injury and go on living. Yann Martel
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. Yann Martel
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. Yann Martel
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
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. Yann Martel
I’ve never forgotten him. 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. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. Yann Martel
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation? Yann Martel
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? 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
The presence of God is the finest of rewards. Yann Martel
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. Yann Martel
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. Yann Martel
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
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth. Yann Martel
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister in law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing I’m sorry, I would rather not go on. Yann Martel
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. Yann Martel
I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion. Yann Martel
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? Yann Martel
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? Yann Martel
With the very first rays of light it came alive in me hope. As things emerged in outline and filled with colour, hope increased until it was like a song in my heart. Yann Martel
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
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
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. Yann Martel
Things didn’t turn out the way they’re supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. Yann Martel
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Yann Martel
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. Yann Martel
If there’s only one nation in the sky, shouldn’t all passports be valid for it? Yann Martel
Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox. Yann Martel
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. Yann Martel
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. Yann Martel
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. Yann Martel
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away. Yann Marte
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
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Yann Martel
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. Yann Martel
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. Yann Martel
If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then 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
Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. Yann Martel
I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. Yann Martel
Something in me did not want to give up on life, was unwilling to let go, wanted to fight to the very end. Where that part of me got the heart, I don’t know. Yann Martel
The presence of God is the finest of rewards. Yann Martel
