Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 30

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?
Yunus Emre
Some people make the mistake of confusing "submission" with "weakness", whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.I accepted the fact that there are things beyond my limits. I can only see some parts, like floating fragments from a movie, but the bigger scheme is beyond my comprehension.
Elif Shafak
If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful.
Orhan Pamuk
Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals
Akif Pirinçci
If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!
Mehmet Murat ildan
From the same window, you keep seeing the same view!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero.
Orhan Pamuk
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
Orhan Pamuk
If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A hungry cat does no favour to a trapped bird!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you kill someone, something from that person passes to you - a sigh, a smell or a gesture. I call it "the curse of the victim." It clings to your body and seeps into your skin, going all the way into your heart, and thus continues to live within you. I carry with me the traces of all the men I have killed. I wear them around my neck like invisible necklaces, feeling their presence against my flesh, tight and heavy. In every murderer breathes the man he murdered.
Elif Shafak
All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Though the people look the same, they are different; though the people look different, they are the same!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Reality is not enough for us, that’s why we have invented art to create different realities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who hides himself amongst the shadows deserves to live inside the dark shadows! Meet with the light to deserve the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man who is at the edge of a precipice has always a better chance to understand the universe than a man who is far away from that precipice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A big hole in a poor child’s shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman’s heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don’t ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That’s why mankind must change the end of the road!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When everything seems too far away from you, don’t despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To encounter great moments, you must mostly be in motion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!
Mehmet Murat ildan