Quotes Relating to the Theme “Self Awareness” in Life of Pi.

Name - Daaim.

1. “It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are
not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
2. “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of
transportation.”
3. “I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”
4. “Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that
grabs at what it can.”
5. “When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and
trifling.”
6. “It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.”
7. “I’ve never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him.”
8. “If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask
any lover.”
9. “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
10. “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?”
11. “I wept like a child. Not because I was overwhelmed at having survived, although I
was. I was weeping because Richard Parker had left me so unceremoniously.”
12. “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, a jealous, possessive love that grabs
at what it can.”
13. “I was giving up. I would have given up—if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my
heart. The voice said, ‘I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I
will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will
turn miracle into routine.’”
14. “I know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm
what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently. You
want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.”