Life of Pi

"Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an ecosystem."

"I have to say a word about fear. It is life's only ugliness."

"The world breaks everyone. And afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"I know love. It is the extra effort in everything."

"I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose."

"Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane."

"It is often said that life is a journey. I completely agree."

"The presence of God is the greatest imaginative event we can conceive."

"We are all born like mammals. But our evolution doesn't stop there."

"If you don't have a story, what you have is a report."

"I am a person who believes in form, in the architectures of things."

"Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith."

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no?"

"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go."

"The tiger knows no malice. He acts only from instinct and hunger—a purity that humans abandoned long ago."

"Survival is the art of staying human when the world demands you become something less."

"I came to love Richard Parker with a passion that was not entirely rational."

"The sea is a mirror of the psyche. Sometimes calm, sometimes turbulent, always revealing truth to those who observe carefully."

"Without Richard Parker, I am nothing. He is my raison d'être."

"Animals have an inner dignity and an awareness of their own worth that cannot be argued away."

"Atheism is a religion too. It requires faith—faith in the power of reason, faith in the ability of our minds to comprehend the world."

"I have nothing to say of my childhood. It was a small life, small in the ways that matter most."

"It is often said that grief passes with time, the sharp edges becoming soft, but time has a way of resurrecting memory in unexpected forms."

"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."

"To live is to recognize, and perhaps to choose between, truths."

"I do not fear death so much as I fear the living."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"Every creature will defend its home. It is the law of nature."

"A thing is only as big as it can be kept inside a person's head."

"The mind is a wonderful instrument."