Yann Martel

The presence of God is the finest of rewards. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. ↗

— Yann Martel

#freedom

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. ↗

— Yann Martel

#death

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. ↗

— Yann Martel

#citizenship #politics #art

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

— Yann Martel

#suffering #life

I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos. ↗

— Yann Martel

#intelligence

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. ↗

— Yann Martel

#age

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. ↗

— Yann Martel

#inspirational