Friday, October 16, 2009

Life of Pi

Just finished reading " Life of Pi" , its novel about a 16 year old boy 227 days cast away in pacific ocean with a bengal tiger. Below are some of the quotes I liked from the book.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival


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


Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer

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

7 comments:

Kannabiran, Ravi Shankar (KRS) said...

one more...
* Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it…
* Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

I like these two quotes very much from the Life of Pi!
Btw, Pi's brother is Ravi, so nice and naughty :)

and btw...the one you quoted..
//It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then you can let go.
Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse//
is very very very very true...:))

Kannabiran, Ravi Shankar (KRS) said...

...And may I suggest one lil thing, Sri?

Try to summarize in 5-10 lines about the book.
I know itz very hard, but it hones your synopsis skills and captivates the mind of the reader, from the mind of you! :)

Btw, from the same Yann Martel, try reading another book - "Self"!
Very mystifying,
Pain & Bliss of Love...and
Controversially, Fluidity of Gender :)

After firts 20 pages or so, you will be pulled to the edge of your chair, very intriguing!

Aarti said...

Beautiful words for a lovely book... !! :)

cover pictures pathutu one nimit wondering enna book.. cos naan padichadula vera cover..!! aduthathu enna book??

sri said...

@ Krs,
Yes they were lovely quotes too, thanks for sharing :) I was planning to write a review, lets see :) Self seems to be interesting would try da.

@Aarti

It happens with me all the time, I pickup book which I have already read, later to realise that jus the cover is different, but its good for the sales I guess :)

Pinpaks said...

Great quotes.
I read the book too.. quite recently.. and a post similar to this was on mind. :) pleasantly surprised to see it here..

What did you like most about the book srivats? other than the quotes that is..

G said...

oh! this book... almost forgot that i'd borrow it from a friend. :D

chital_phenomenal said...

really nice post!