Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 33

Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.
Orhan Pamuk
Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.
Orhan Pamuk
The best light which illuminates your path is your determination!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A night without stars is a night wasted.
Mehmet Murat ildan
What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.
Elif Batuman
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Cemal Süreya
The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, because this is the best way to realise explicitly the miracles surrounding us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The world is your real country! Replace your local mind with the universal one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When, after hours of lovemaking, we quickly dressed and leftthe apartment, I sometimes thought that Füsun was also taking care not to get “carried away” by herfeelings for me. A proper understanding of my story depends, I think, on a full appreciation of thepleasure we took from these sweet shared moments. I am certain that the fire at the heart of my tale is thedesire to relive those moments of love, and my attachment to those pleasures.
Orhan Pamuk
The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.
Elif Shafak
Don’t be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect’s point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An ordinary place turns into an extraordinary place when visited by a good music! Earthly place becomes celestial!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What is the name of your dream? Don’t give a name, always give a list! Fill yourself with dreams because dream is the path to reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Have you got stuck in a period of time where you loved or you were loved once? Come back to the present time, because present time is the only time you can do something real about your fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who gets up very early creates a new day within the same day!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?
Mehmet Murat ildan
I don't know about you, the world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to be a myth! That's what we call eternity.
İlhan Berk