All Ben Okri Quotes
- The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. Artist
- This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down. Down
- Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws… Change
- We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves. Beings
- There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their… Adoration
- We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,… According
- Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard. Back Yard
- a dream can be the highest point of a life Dream
- A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad.… Confident
- If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom. Afraid
- The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time. Every Experience
- A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life. Able
- What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated… Accepted
- One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of… Bed
- What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them. Create
- Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories Go
- It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is real. It is a weight you have to carry around. Each failure to… Any
- I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. Evening
- Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously. Cautiously
- You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your… Alone
- We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination. Arrived
- Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases. Asylum
- We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact… All
- The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of… Absolute
- 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… Been