Yann Martel Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

  Yann Martel

  Memories, Fear, Real

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

  Yann Martel

  Believe, Darkness, Don't Believe

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.29, Vintage Canada

• To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?

  Yann Martel

  Creating, Long, Darkness

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.103, Canongate Books

• Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

  Yann Martel

  Rain, Darkness, Dawn

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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