Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 35

Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are walking on the wrong path not knowingly, that is bad for you; if walking knowingly, that is stupid for you and if you lead others on the wrong path deliberately that is a shame for you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the dogs bark, the wolves howl, the lightnings flash and the crows caw, you continue doing your job!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest storms on our Earth break not in nature but in our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
World is brighter with the happiness of children.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth’s position in the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes all you need in your life is anything strange because strange things can revive your soul just like a cold water freshening your pale face with every splash!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.
Elif Shafak
Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.
Baris Gencel
The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Isn’t that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something… Incomplete information… Endless possibilities… When you don’t know much about something, it’s the most exciting sensation.-Kutsnetz in TALUS
Erol Ozan
The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unless you have a free press in your country, there is no need to buy newspapers and there is no need to watch the news because there is no need to listen to the lies! And you already have one real information: You are being deceived by the people you are governed! This is an enough information for you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Today’s warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us choose one another as companions!Let us sit at each other's feet!Inwardly we have many harmonies - think notThat we are only what we see.
Elif Shafak
Talent is an art of gaining admiration!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, “honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember…
Elif Shafak
The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ironically, [living in] communities of the like - minded is one of the greatest dangers of today ́s globalized world. And it ́s happening everywhere, among liberals and conservatives, agnostics and believers, the rich and the poor, East and West alike. We tend to form clusters based on similarity, and then we produce stereotypes about other clusters of people. In my opinion, one way of transcending these cultural ghettos is through the art of storytelling
Elif Shafak
When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To carry a light on Earth is to represent the Sun on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must forget their voices, their smells, their demands, their love, their hate, and be myself, I must be myself, I told myself, as i gazed down at the legs resting so happily on the stool, and I told myself again as I looked up to watch the smoke I'd blown up to the ceiling; I must be myself, because if I failed to be myself, I become the person they wanted me to be; if I had to be that insufferable person, I'd rather be nothing at all. It would be better if I didn't exist,...
Orhan Pamuk
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.
Harun Yahya
Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!
Mehmet Murat ildan
History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won’t change!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every human being will die. I am not God, I am not son of God, I am Christ eternal.
Mehmet Ali Ağca
If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!
Mehmet Murat ildan