Yann Martel Quotes About Survival

Quotes about: Survival

• 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 Martel

  Dream, Hands, Survival

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. 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 Martel

  Dream, Mistake, Hands

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

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

  Yann Martel

  Selfish, Empathy, Survival

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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