Quotes by : Ben Okri

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured....

The highest kind of writing—which must not be confused withthe most ambitious kind…belongs to the....

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever....

When we’ve been travelling around I’ve often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that....

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

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and....

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of....

Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They sayhe is looking for the spirit of....

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

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