Yann Martel Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

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

  Yann Martel

  Life, Philosophy, Mean

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.51, Canongate Books

• If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

  Yann Martel

  Prayer, Philosophy, Moving

  "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

• I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.

  Yann Martel

  Clever, Self, Law

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

  Yann Martel

  Grateful, Air, Doubt

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.138, Canongate Books

• If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.

  Yann Martel

  Fall, Animal, Ostriches

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.307, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

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