Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 24

Love was not enough to fight or I was not worth to fight.
Arzum Uzun
If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.
Orhan Pamuk
When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Make a journey in such a way that it becomes the dream of others even long after you have gone!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you think about all the infinitely many galaxies and combinations of DNA, and against all those odds you meet this person - it's a miracle...' 'Right,' I said. I couldn't imagine viewing Bill's presence on Earth as any kind of a miracle, but wasn't that itself the miracle - that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up by how quantifiably lovable they are?
Elif Batuman
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
Orhan Pamuk
If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Believers are each other's mirrors.
Elif Shafak
Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!
Mehmet Murat ildan
While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Think big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow.
Irfan Orga
Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life ofLove, living is a burden - as you have seen.
Elif Shafak
Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Doing goodness is good only when you don’t expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
That is what the past was, that which you could not get rid of. The past did not resemble the crumbs spilled over a rug. You could not shake them out from open windows.
Elif Shafak
Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are a hope for someone, that’s very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that’s excellent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
Orhan Pamuk
When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!
Mehmet Murat ildan
And life goes on like this,an uncomplete poem.
Arzum Uzun
A happy face is also a source of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I love you" he said. I did not say anything. What could I say? If i said i love you too, i had perpetual punishment for being a liar.
Arzum Uzun
For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you trust yourself, you will come out like a beautiful sunbeam through the dark clouds!
Mehmet Murat ildan