Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 3

No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
Orhan Pamuk
Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man’s primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Environmental pollution is not only humanity’s treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A Very Short Poem for Poor LoversYou’ve got nothing,I’ve got nothing,And it’s not a good thing.
Arzum Uzun
In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!
Mehmet Murat ildan
John F. Kennedy says: ‘Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.’ I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don’t leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t let anybody to ruin your inner joy or to interfere in your marvellous rhythm!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The kingdom of reflection is at the mercy of the wind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...when women survive an awful marriage or love affair, and all that shit, they generally avoid another relationship for quite some time. With men, however, it is just the opposite; the moment they finish a catastrophe they start looking for another one. Men are incapable of being alone.
Elif Shafak
Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man has not forgotten to be man because man has not yet learned to be man! You can’t forget the thing you haven’t learned yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people.
Taner Akçam
Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This love is hard core. Let's make it soft porn.
Arzum Uzun
A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sun must set so that we can long for its rise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called ‘You and I’ planet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A calm night is open to all the truths.
Mehmet Murat ildan
We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.
Mehmet Murat ildan