Yann Martel

Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. ↗

— Yann Martel

#believe #believer #believing #god #life

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. ↗

— Yann Martel

#humor #senses #humor

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love. ↗

— Yann Martel

#free #god #love #religion #trust

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. ↗

— Yann Martel

#art #books #art

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

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

— Yann Martel

#survival-instinct #life

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

It's amazing how willpower can build walls. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life-of-pi #life