Dangerous Love Quotes

“Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.”
― Ben Okri, Dangerous Love

“An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.”
― Ben Okri, Dangerous Love

“He felt there had to be ‘something’. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was only by the application of vision, only by making things, that we could transform the negative ‘nothing’.”
― Ben Okri, Dangerous Love

“He had to learn how not to let his eyes be bewildered by manifestations, and thereby learn to treat appearances as signs and codes of the interior.”
― Ben Okri, Dangerous Love

“So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.”
― Ben Okri, Dangerous Love