Yann Martel Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long. What do you know about the sea? Nothing. What do I know about the sea? Nothing. Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion-- It should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view. Oh enough of this disembling. Let me say plainly: I love you, I love you, I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you. Not the spiders, please.

  Yann Martel

  Pain, Love You, Views

  "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

• If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! - do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.

  Yann Martel

  Home, Thinking, Doors

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.18, Vintage Canada

• You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

  Yann Martel

  Pain, Long, Joy

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.123, Vintage Canada

• Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

  Yann Martel

  Joy, Understanding, Feelings

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.98, Canongate Books

• A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.

  Yann Martel

  Joy, Cinema, Boxes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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