Yann Martel Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.

  Yann Martel

  Country, Writing, People

• I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

  Yann Martel

  Expression, Grace, Earth

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

  Yann Martel

  Life, Simple, Games

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.292, Canongate Books

• If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

  Yann Martel

  Earth, Might, Misery

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.20, Canongate Books

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