Ben Okri Quotes

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Without hope we are lost.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.

I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse.

Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.