"Life of Pi" Quotes

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

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

I wept like a child. Not because I was overwhelmed at having survived, although I was. I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. It broke my heart.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

With time, it became clear to me that the power of life, the power of the spirit, was my mother's gift to me.

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.

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.