Yann Martel Quotes

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

As long as one suffers one lives.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.

Lifes strange ,times change, but karma always finds the way. Stay strong, hold on. Don’t let all your dreams fade away. Yeah life can beat you down, what goes it comes around It’s not how you hit the ground, it’s how fast you get back up. And go, keep going ,till it feels like I’m giving my life away Gets hard,and harder, happiness is worth the wait.

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live