33 Life Of Pi Quotes To Learn Powerful Life Lessons

The movie Life of Pi follows a young Indian boy named Pi Patel, who survives 227 days adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.

The film has received widespread acclaim for its special effects, music, and cinematography. It became the second-highest-grossing non-English language film ever released in North America and was nominated for four Academy Awards.

The book is set in Pondicherry, India. The story takes place on September 10th, 1991, the day when Sri Lankan Civil War started. It tells the life story of Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, son of a zookeeper who loves animals. When he is 16 years old, his family decides to move from Pondicherry to Canada to live near his older brother’s family.

Here are the most inspirational quotes from the movie that will give you the strength to fight your challenges.

33 Life Of Pi Quotes To Learn Powerful Life Lessons

1. “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.” ~ Yann Marte

2. “Things didn’t turn out the way they’re supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.” ~ Yann Martel

3. “Hunger can change everything you thought you knew about yourself.” ~ Adult Pi Patel (Gautam Belur)

4. “Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.” ~ Yann Martel

5. “I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.” ~ Yann Martel

6. “We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It is not the question of courage. It is something constitutional, an ability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.” ~ Yann Martel

7. “When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.” ~ Yann Martel

8. “Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?” ~ Yann Martel

9. “All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” ~ Yann Martel

10. “We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.” ~ Yann Martel

11. “I had no idea a living being could sustain so much injury and go on living.” ~ Yann Martel

12. “Animals don’t think like we do! People who forget that get themselves killed. When you look into an animal’s eyes, you are seeing your own emotions reflected back at you, and nothing else.” ~ Santosh Patel (Adil Hussain)

13. “Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.” ~ Yann Martel

14. “Above all: don’t lose hope.” ~ Pi Patel (Suraj Sharma)

15. “Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love.” ~ Yann Martel

16. “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.” ~ Yann Martel

17. “I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.” ~ Yann Martel

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

19. “Believing in everything at once is the same thing as believing in nothing.” ~ Santosh Patel (Adil Hussain)

20. “Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.” ~ Yann Martel

21. “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? Doesn’t that make life a story?” ~ Yann Martel

22. “Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little.” ~ Yann Martel

23. “Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.” ~ Yann Martel

24. “The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.” ~ Yann Martel

25. “Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.” ~ Yann Martel

26. “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.” ~ Yann Martel

27. “A mouthful of water will not harm you, but panic will.” ~ Mamaji (Elie Alouf)

28. “With the very first rays of light it came alive in me: hope. As things emerged in outline and filled with colour, hope increased until it was like a song in my heart.” ~ Yann Martel

29. “Spectacle. Don’t let the stories and pretty lights fool you. Boys, religion is darkness.” ~ Santosh Patel (Adil Hussain)

30. “Something in me did not want to give up on life, was unwilling to let go, wanted to fight to the very end. Where that part of me got the heart, I don’t know.” ~ Yann Martel

31. “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.” ~ Yann Martel

32. “Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?” ~ Yann Martel

33. “Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?” ~ Yann Martel

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