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Quotes About Existence

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
~ Yann Martel
Hidup ini begitu indah, hingga maut pun jatuh cinta padanya
~ Yann Martel
You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
~ Yann Martel
Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
~ Yann Martel
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity – it's envy.
~ Yann Martel
What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.
~ Yann Martel
Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
~ Yann Martel
The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.
~ Yann Martel
Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.
~ Yann Martel
Time is an illusion that only makes us pant.
~ Yann Martel
Kau mungkin tidak percaya pada kehidupan, tapi aku tidak percaya pada kematian.
~ Yann Martel
Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end. If the watch doesn't work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us.
~ Yann Martel
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were something weak and helpless.
~ Yann Martel
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist.
~ Yann Martel
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.
~ Yann Martel
I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness
~ Yann Martel
How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?
~ Yann Martel
We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship.
~ Yann Martel
Nem! Nem! Nem! A szenvedésem igenis számít. Élni akarok. Muszáj belekevernem az életemet a világegyetem életébe. Az élet egy kémlelÅ'nyílás, az egyetlen pici út egy végtelenségbe – hogyan hagyhatnám ki ezt a kurta, sz?k pillantást, amit a világra vethetek? Nekem csak ez jutott!
~ Yann Martel
I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
~ Yann Martel
If it happened, it happened. Why should it have to mean anything?
~ Yann Martel
We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more-there is no greater relationship. Long before Darwin, a priest lucid in his madness encountered four chimpanzees on a forlorn island in Africa and hit upon a great truth: We are risen apes, not fallen angels.
~ Yann Martel
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.
~ Yann Martel
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity – it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it...
~ Yann Martel