Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 21

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things--and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.
Elif Batuman
You want to create a country with millions of great magicians? Then let the free thinking prevails everywhere. And thus creativity will increase and creativity is the greatest magician in our universe.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Happiness is the most tired word in any language.
Erol Ozan
As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
Orhan Pamuk
If your words touch the hearts, that’s good; if your words touch the minds, that’s better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don’t ever stop, don’t ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don’t behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Who said Hong Kong too small? In size perhaps but not in it`s soul and personality. Every corner in this city giving you full of surprises, if not every hour but at least every day….
Baris Gencel
To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!
Mehmet Murat ildan
God may be the captain pilot of this universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!
Elif Shafak
Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind’s invention, your mind’s exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni
Yunus Emre
A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.
Orhan Pamuk
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
Orhan Pamuk
If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don’t you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates.
Mehmet Murat ildan
An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rain just rains, it does nothing else. Wisdom just rains, it does nothing else! And those who get the rain get the miracles hidden inside the rain and create their own miracles!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it was, he said, this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.
Orhan Pamuk
The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Gökalp gave "the nation" an important mystical component. In his work, "he transferred to the nation the divine qualities he had found in society, replacing the belief in God with the belief in nation: and so nationalism became a religion." The national is deified, thus expanding Durkheim's idea that "society can do as it pleases." So, if a nation perceives itself in danger, it feels no moral responsibility in its response to that danger. The Unionist "scientific approach" gained a "sacred" character through Gökalp's theories.
Taner Akçam
A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?
Mehmet Murat ildan
By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Soil is earth’s barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you fall in love, you land on a cloud.
Erol Ozan
Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence.
Erol Ozan
Do not waste time wondering things you can't do well, instead think about things you can do great.
John Taskinsoy
Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.
Elif Shafak
They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems’ path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of ‘test’ at once!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May love always be with you, and you always surrounded by love
Elif Shafak
Japan!everything in details perfection.
Baris Gencel
There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The impression she left on others and her self-perception had been sewn into a whole so consummate that she could no longer tell how much of each day was defined by what was wished upon her and how much of it was what she really wanted.--Three Daughters of Eve.
Elif Shafak
In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, impersonating that character. Everybody could go and listen, you know ordinary people, even the sultan, Muslims and non-Muslims. Stories cut across all boundaries. Like "The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja," which were very popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Asia. Today, stories continue to transcend borders
Elif Shafak
When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Failing is easy, but climbing up the mountain requires strategy, commitment, endurance, and the iron will to keep trying till you reach the summit.
John Taskinsoy
Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!
Mehmet Murat ildan