159 Quotes by Ben Okri

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. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

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

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.

When we’ve been travelling around I’ve often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I’ve seen everything I’ve decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.

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

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

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.