Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 18

All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Existence has billions of doors, but death has none!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.
Orhan Pamuk
We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
Orhan Pamuk
When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him feel that he is remembered!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everyone wants to rule the world . . . Really, absolutely everyone. That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's always about in the end. And every species believes it's number one. Every individual is firmly convinced that he or she alone has the right to ascend to the throne and issue orders to get rid of others. And in reality everyone is fooling themselves, because up there on the throne it's lonely and cold.
Akif Pirinçci
In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.
Orhan Pamuk
The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.
Erol Ozan
A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.
Erol Ozan
If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses.
Baris Gencel
Don’t mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a great willpower, no road has length!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven as they are both present inside this very moment. Why worry so much about the aftermath, an imaginary future, when this very moment is the only time we can truly and fully experience the presence and absence of God in our lives? Motivated by neither the fear of punishment nor the desire to be rewarded in heaven, Sufis love God simply because they love him.
Elif Shafak
The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.
Taner Akçam
There are many you’s within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you’s!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?
Mehmet Murat ildan
evet kimsesizdik ama umudumuz vardıüç ev görsek bir şehir sanıyorduküç güvercin görsek meksika geliyordu aklımızacaddelerde gezmekten hoşlanıyorduk akşamlarıkadınların kocalarını aramasını seviyorduksonra şarap içiyorduk kırmızı yahut beyazbilir bilmez geyikli gece yüzünden
Turgut Uyar
Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!
Mehmet Murat ildan