Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 2

When you start thinking, you will lose your contact with the crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.
Orhan Pamuk
Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don’t be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trust your own reason and your own logic, not your own media!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.
Orhan Pamuk
The greatest realisation in one’s life is this: You don’t have to follow others! Creating your own path is creating a new path for the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cold is hot, if you love it; hot is cold, if you hate it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The more a politician stays in the high positions, the dirtier and filthier he becomes! Countries must ensure that no politician stays long in the high offices or else the whole country starts becoming dirty and filthy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.
Elif Shafak
Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People like the leaders; they like to follow them; they let the leaders to think on behalf of them; they like shepherds; they like to behave like sheep! For god’s sake, follow your own path, be an individual, be independent! Stop being a coach in the train, a duck in the row! Get some personality! Use your own mind to determine your own path! Forget the leader, forget the shepherd, forget the guru, and forget the protagonist! Be the leader of yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t make a high jump without high spirits!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.
Orhan Pamuk
There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and the innocent ones, who get involved because they believe in equality and justice. The arrogant ones are obsessed with power; they presume to think for everyone; only bad can come of them. But the innocents? The only harm they do is to themselves. But that's all they ever wanted in the first place. They feel so guilty about the suffering of the poor, and are so keen to share it, that they make their lives miserable on purpose.
Orhan Pamuk
You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn’t find such a path yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where there is reflection, there is either double beauty or double ugliness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.
Orhan Pamuk
A single word can brighten the faceof one who knows the value of words.Ripened in silence, a single wordacquires a great energy for work.War is cut short by a word,and a word heals the wounds,and there’s a word that changespoison into butterand honey.Let a word mature inside yourself.Withhold the unripened thought.Come and understand the kind of wordthat reduces money and riches to dust.Know when to speak a wordand when not to speak at all.A single word turns the universe of hellinto eight paradises.Follow the Way. Don’t be fooledby what you already know. Be watchful.Reflect before you speak.A foolish mouth can brand your soul.Yunus, say one last thingabout the power of words –Only the word “I”divides me from God.
Yunus Emre
It is often said that it’s a man’s world! We must change this fact and create this: It’s a human’s world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan