Yann Martel Zitate

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„Was für ein Schlag, wenn das Herz eines Menschen mit so etwas fertig werden muss!
Wer einen Bruder verliert, der verliert jemanden, mit dem er gemeinsam alt werden konnte, jemanden, der ihm eine Schwägerin, Nichten und Neffen bescheren sollte, Menschen, die den Baum eines Lebens bevölkern und ihm neue Zweige geben sollen.
Den Vater zu verlieren heißt den zu verlieren, der dem Leben die Richtung gibt, denjenigen, zu dem man geht, wenn man in Not ist, der einen trägt und erhält, wie ein Stamm die Äste eines Baumes trägt.
Und wenn man die Mutter verliert, das ist, als verlöre man die Sonne am Himmel.“

„Und dann war da die Frau, der ein Löwe den Sari auszog. Sie drehte sich wie ein Jojo, denn dem tödlichen Ende zog sie die tödliche Schande dann doch vor. […] Verletzt wurde sie nicht; zahlreiche Männer eilten begeistert zu Hilfe.“

„Ich hatte nicht viel Ahnung von [der christlichen] Religion. Es gab kaum Götter, und sie galt als gewalttätig. Allerdings hatte sie gute Schulen.“

„Machen Sie weiter, bis das Tier, das Ihnen zusetzt - ob Tiger, ob Rhinozeros - grün vor Seekranheit ist. Sie müssen hören, wie es sich die Seele aus dem Leibe spuckt.“

„Der erste Schritt zum Überleben ist ein offenes Auge dafür, was zur Hand ist und was als Nächstes getan werden muss. Wer in müßiger Hoffnung auf Hilfe wartet, der vertut sein Leben mit Träumerei.“

„Es sollte anders kommen als wir dachten, aber was kann man da schon machen? Man muss das Leben nehmen, wie es kommt, und sehen, dass man das Beste daraus macht.“

„I underestimated her. I under-estimated her grit. She“

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

“My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.”

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

“First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.”

“I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.”

“know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently.”

“I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.”

“Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by”

“A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”

“It's amazing how willpower can build walls.”

“.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”

“Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.”

“It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.”

“If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!”

“Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.”

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." Page 316”

“A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.”

“Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.”

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

“science can only take you so far and then you have to leap”

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

“The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.”

“Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.”

“Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.”

“To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.”

“Christianity is a religion in a rush.”

“The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.”

“I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.”