Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 13

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The meeting of the two lonely souls is the meeting of the dark sea with the moonlight.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two.
Orhan Pamuk
In action is the worst action of human beings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
Orhan Pamuk
Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.
Orhan Pamuk
People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead.
Mehmet Murat ildan
For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.
Mehmet Murat ildan
In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
Orhan Pamuk
Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cooking like a Michelin star chef without a recipe requires high intuition but only a little skill, a lot of imagination, and willingness to be curious and innovative.
Baris Gencel
Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You don’t have to love the storm but you have to know its language in case you meet it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days! ~
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your mind will meet with your body over there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
the train plunges on through the pitch-black nightI never knew I liked the night pitch-blacksparks fly from the engineI didn't know I loved sparksI didn't know I loved so many things and I had to wait until sixty to find it out sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train watching the world disappear as if on a journey of no return
Nâzım Hikmet
Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
Orhan Pamuk
If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A field which feeds you, a river which gives you water are much holier than all other so-called holy places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.
Orhan Pamuk
You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critique of democracy in the name of difference developed by oppositional intellectuals be formulated so carefully that these thoughts cannot be exploited for nationalist, tribalist, and xenophobic purposes. It is imperative that the politics of the 'differend' not be settled beyond and at the margins of democratic politics.
Şeyla Benhabib
Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you sweep the universe, nothing changes, only the things change their places; when the universe sweeps you, nothing changes, only the things change their places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have taught your child how to walk when he is all alone, it means that you have taught him everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good.
Mehmet Murat ildan
To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.
Elif Shafak
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want more light in your house? Enlarge your windows! You want more truth in your life? Doubt everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!
Mehmet Murat ildan