# Quote — Ben Okri, The Famished Road

> "The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you."

- Author: [Ben Okri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri.md)
- Book: [The Famished Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-famished-road.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Okri#The_Famished_Road_(1991)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-famished-road/the-road-will

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> The clearing was the beginning of an expressway. Building companies had levelled the trees. In places the earth was red. We passed a tree that had been felled. Red liquid dripped from its stump as if the tree had been a murdered giant whose blood wouldn’t stop flowing.

p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-famished-road/the-clearing-was.md)

> One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-famished-road/one-human-life.md)

> "Learn to drink, my son. A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-famished-road/learn-to-drink.md)