Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 36

In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. You say you want to travel the path, but you don't want to sacrifice anything to that end. Money, fame, power, lavishness, or carnal pleasure - whatever it is that one holds most dear in life, one should dispose of that first.
Elif Shafak
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can’t see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In our household doubts more troubling than these were suffered in silence. The spiritual void I have seen in so many of Istanbul's rich, Westernised, secularist families is evident in these silences. Everyone talks openly about mathematics, success at school, football and having fun, but they grapple with the most basic questions of existence - love,compassion, religion, the meaning of life, jealousy, hatred - in trembling confusion and painful solitude. They light a cigarette, give their attention to the music on the radio, return wordlessly to their inner worlds.
Orhan Pamuk
For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the future, you will always encounter the past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who knows Mars, Venus, Mercury or Jupiter very well will also know very well how very precious our earth is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don’t be the man of anyone or any system, don’t believe in any religious stories, and don’t ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can sleep in a forest and have a nice dream. But when you wake up, you will have a much better dream: The Magnificent Reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most people, the minute they meet you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people – people they could get rid of.... Everyone is trying to reassure themselves: I'm not going to get kicked off the boat, they are. They're always separating people into two groups, allies and dispensable people... The number of people who want to understand what you're like instead of trying to figure out whether you get to stay on the boat - it's really limited.
Elif Batuman
Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at towards the future! If you see something, it is your imagination only! Because the future is not there yet, it has not born yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words.
Orhan Pamuk
A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Storms are good friends because they light up the way to wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
Orhan Pamuk
If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man’s greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren’t we all a little crazy anyway?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You learned something right? Make it part of your life right away! You heard something clever? Internalize it instantly! You heard something beautiful? Add it to your life philosophy at once!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you fully understand something, you become that something itself! If you understand a rock, you become a rock; if you understand the universe, you become the universe; if you understand a horse, you become a horse! Understanding automatically transforms you into the thing understood!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everybody walks to somewhere or everybody runs to somewhere simply because those somewheres don’t walk to us or don’t run to us! No struggle happens, no nothing happens!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.
Arzum Uzun
The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!
Mehmet Murat ildan