Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 26

Peace is an innocent child hated by some deviant and those who hate him will find no peace ever in their lives!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal
Orhan Pamuk
To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This he had noticed while doing his military service back in Turkey. When more than three people slept in a narrow place, sooner or later their breaths would become synchronized. Perhaps it was God's way of telling us that if we could just let go of ourselves, we would all eventually be in step and there would be no more disputes.
Elif Shafak
Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Have an objective in life! Or you feel lost in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother’s weak shoulders which carry three children!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He tip-toed past the double bed that had been placed in a corner - wrought-iron headboard, embroidered pillows, amulets against the evil-eye and a satiny, cobalt-blue bedspread. Blue was Iskender's favourite colour. It was the colour for boys, which meant the sky was a boy. So were the rivers and lakes. And the oceans, though he had yet to see one.
Elif Shafak
Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not every lost soul wants to be found, because not every lost is lost, some of them found something or many thing or even everything in their lostness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.
Orhan Pamuk
Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We always talk about human salvation. But we must first decide whether we deserve salvation?
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is good to think; but to think in a right way, that is great!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For your shadow, you are his shadow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven’t made are the real source of regrets in your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.
Gündüz Vassaf
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?
Orhan Pamuk
What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey’s!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For those who sit on the stairs, a good quote is a strong invitation to stand up and to go up the stairs!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.
Orhan Pamuk
If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No dream can be more beautiful than the reality itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy’s book!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Today’s living people are much more important than tomorrow’s yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today’s people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the same immoral methods, because to defeat a poisonous snake you don’t have to be a poisonous snake yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!
Mehmet Murat ildan