Yann Martel Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• 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

• And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I am allowed no explanation? I am to suffer hell without any account from heaven? In that case, what is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities-the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? (pg. 98)

  Yann Martel

  Giving, Shining, Bird

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada

• Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

  Yann Martel

  Bird, Mind, Answers

  Yann Martel (1993). “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”, Orlando : Harcourt

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin