Life of Pi quotes

• "I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible" - Context after Pi killed a fish
• “You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado.” - Pi get's tougher as his journey as a castaway carry on
• “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” - Each day Pi survives is a miracle. We watch as Pi's daily routine of survival takes on the quality of spiritual exercises like prayer or fasting.
• "When own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival" - Zebra had been attacked by the Hyena
• Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little. - Shortly after Richard Parker got onto lifeboat
• 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. - Pi adjusts to life at sea and philosophizes on the nature of being a castaway
• Without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story. - This line is spoken by Pi approximately halfway through the book
• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. - toward the end of his ordeal at sea and as he is reaching the depths of his despair.
• I had no idea a living being could sustain so much injury and go on living. - the zebra suffers fatal wounds after being attacked by the hyena 
• Something in me did not want to give up on life, was unwilling to let go, wanted to fight to the very end. - In the moments right after the ship begins to sink and Pi finds himself in the water, he realizes two things: He’s lost everyone he loves, but his will to survive remains strong.
• You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. - Pi’s words mark a pivotal moment in both the animal and human versions of his story
• Only fear can defeat - if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
• No! No! No! My suffering does matter. I want to live! - not ready to accept death, want to carry on living
• Plan number 7: Keep him alive - after Pi tamed Richard Parker
• I always added a little sea water to Richard Parker fresh water
• No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live
• I could not abandon Richard Parker. To leave him would mean to kill him. He would not survive the first night. - Algae island
• What always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye - Pi bid farewell with Richard Parker
• “Yes. The story with animals is the better story.” - Mr Okamoto prefer the story with the animals
• Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day.
• Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.”
• Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust—but sometimes it was so hard to love.
• since it makes no factual difference to you and you can’t prove the question either way, which story do you prefer?”
• I ate like an animal, that this noisy, frantic, unchewing wolfing-down of mine was exactly the way Richard Parker ate.”
• “Thank you. And so it goes with God.” - Mr Okamoto agree to Pi that animal story is better
• That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out the essence? - fiction allow better deeper message to be convey
• I saw you! You just ate a piece! You said it was for bait! I knew it. - Pi's mom finding out the truth from the cook
• To the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story. - Religion is align with imagination, religion tell wonderful tales
• If we, citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination