Life of Pi Quotes

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• 1. Pi Patel: I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
  – Submitted by Mati M (56 days ago)
• 1. Writer: It is a lot to take in--to figure out what it all means.
  2. Adult Pi Patel: If it happens, it happens, why should it have meaning?
  – Submitted by Chrisel Ann K (2 months ago)
• 1. Santosh Patel: Do you understand? Good.
  2. Young Pi Patel: I would like to be baptized.
  – Submitted by Adi P (2 months ago)
• 1. Santosh Patel: Believe in something then to accept everything blindly. And that begins with thinking rationally.
  – Submitted by Adi P (2 months ago)
• 1. Santosh Patel: In a few hundred years science has taken us farther in understanding the universe than religion has in 10,000.
  2. Gita Patel: That is true. Science can teach us more about what is out there, but not what is in here.
  – Submitted by Adi P (2 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye
  – Submitted by Jillian L (2 months ago)
• 1. Santosh Patel: We will sail like Columbus
  2. Young Pi Patel: But Columbus was looking for India!
  – Submitted by Jillian L (2 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
  – Submitted by Grace C (3 months ago)
• 1. Pi: Animals have souls... I have seen it in their eyes.
  – Submitted by Lucas M (3 months ago)
• 1. Pi: I surrender. What more do you want?
  – Submitted by Stanley H (3 months ago)
• 1. Pi: Of course, I brought the biscuits and the water with me to keep them safe. Idiot.
  – Submitted by Stanley H (3 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
  – Submitted by Marian A (4 months ago)
• 1. Writer: [reading off the report] Mr. Patel's is an astounding story, courage and endurance unparalleled in the history of ship-wrecks. Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.
  – Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: So which story do you prefer?
  2. Writer: The one with the tiger. That's the better story.
  3. Adult Pi Patel: Thank you. And so it goes with God.
  4. Writer: [smiles] It's an amazing story.
  – Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)
• 1. Pi Patel: [facing a storm on the lifeboat] Richard Parker, come out you have to see this! It's beautiful!
  – Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: Faith is a house with many rooms.
  2. Writer: But no room for doubt?
  3. Adult Pi Patel: Oh plenty, on every floor. Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it is tested.
  – Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)
• 1. Pi: God, thank you for giving me my life. I am ready now.
  – Submitted by Latonya S (4 months ago)
• 1. Pi Patel: [on killing the fish] Thank you Lord Vishnu. Thank you for coming in the form of fish and saving our lives.
  – Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)
• 1. Pi Patel: I can eat biscuits, but God made tigers carnivorous, so I must learn to catch fish. If don't, I'm afraid his last meal would be a skinny vegetarian boy.
  – Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: [after describing what the priest in the Church told him about Jesus] That made no sense.
  – Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)
• 1. Pi: And I have to live with that.
  – Submitted by Alison S (4 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
  – Submitted by Ed'mund T (5 months ago)
• 1. Pi: It's your story now.
  – Submitted by Xuanlei Lucy L (5 months ago)
• 1. Pi: What do you see Richard Parker? Tell me what do you see.
  – Submitted by Sayantan M (5 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: Hunger can change everything you thought you knew yourself!
  – Submitted by Prasanna D (5 months ago)
• 1. Santosh Patel: You think tiger is your friend, he is an animal, not a playmate.
  2. Pi Patel: Animals have souls... I have seen it in their eyes.
  – Submitted by Ken C (5 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: All of life is an act of letting go but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
  – Submitted by Ken C (5 months ago)
• 1. Pi: Above all... it is important not to lose hope.
  – Submitted by Reenu S (5 months ago)
• 1. Pi's Father: We are going to Canada, North America.
  2. Pi: But Columbus was looking for India.
  – Submitted by Mehul P (5 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: 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.
  – Submitted by Kevin R (5 months ago)
• 1. Pi: Thank you, Vishnu, for introducing me to Christ.
  – Submitted by Sriram C (5 months ago)
• 1. Pi: If every unfolding we experience takes us further along in life, then, we are truly experiencing what life is offering...
  – Submitted by Risha N (5 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: Religion is a house with many rooms.
  2. Writer: But with no room for doubt?
  3. Adult Pi Patel: Oh yes, room on every floor.
  – Submitted by Garrett F (5 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: And so it is by God.
  – Submitted by Tim J (5 months ago)
• 1. Adult Pi Patel: It was a time filled with wonder that I'll always remember.
  – Submitted by Chris P (5 months ago)