Quotes by : Yann Martel

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU....

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each....

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed....

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is....

The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone....

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains....

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful....

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with....