Ben Okri Quotes

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.

I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

Do you know what the luckiest thing is?’‘No.’‘It is to be at home everywhere.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.