Ben Okri Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.”

“We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.”

“Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.”

“To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.”

“Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.”

“You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.”

“To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.”

“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.”

“Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.”

“I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.”