Tales of Freedom Quotes

“We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.”
― Ben Okri, Tales of Freedom

“Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.”
― Ben Okri, Tales of Freedom

“A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven.”
― Ben Okri, Tales of Freedom

“I mean we desperately wanted to be in love with something or other. We were lonely people. It seemed more sensible to fall in love with another person who also wanted to fall in love, than to love a chair or a cat or an idea.”
― Ben Okri, Tales of Freedom

“If I don't say the thought right I might destroy it.”
― Ben Okri, Tales of Freedom

“It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [...] Hope makes all things near, and so can prove treacherous.”
― Ben Okri, Tales of Freedom

“But to hear Mozart in a bombed city: how much more beautiful it sounds, as if it were composed to somehow soothe the ruins, to promise a wiser future rising from the rubble.”
― Ben Okri, Tales of Freedom

“In a world where no one listens, where no one seems to care, where hatred is greater than love, where hearts are hardened by vengeance and pride, where violence is preferable to peace, what else is there for him to do but heal the wounded, and bury the dead, in a war that could go on forever?”
― Ben Okri, Tales of Freedom