Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 4

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.
Elif Shafak
By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not lucky enough, you can’t reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need ‘luck’ to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There ́s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static, rooted in a place. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a wide circle, constantly moving. Like that, my fiction as well. One part of it is rooted in Istanbul with strong Turkish roots. But the other part travels the world, connecting to different cultures.
Elif Shafak
How long we live is much more important than how well we live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The joy of life is being able to do the things we wish to do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. The water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.
Elif Shafak
You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excessive silence in your mind? Find some powerful storms to awaken your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
Mehmet Murat ildan
You don’t need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To give light to others, you must first take light from others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For whom am I waiting? I don't know, at this point in my life there doesn't seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.
Cezmi Ersöz
Love and knwoledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving, knowledge too..
Baris Gencel
Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; more guns, more misery!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
True thinking brings a good life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best dancer is the one who isn’t even aware that she is dancing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mystery is a genius teacher: It forces its students to think thoroughly and to ask many questions! The path of mystery gives you much more things than the path of known!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever you value, it becomes your sun! If you value a calm night, your own sun will rise with the sunset on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end up suffocating with their love; a house where you, as the only child, have to be more mature than all the adults around....But the problem is that they want me to become everything they themselves couldn't accomplish in life.....As a result, I had to work my butt off to fulfill all their dreams at the same time.
Elif Shafak
Bu dağlarda bin kere ölmeden, bir kere dirilemezsin.
Yaşar Kemal
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The tram’s fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The reflection is as real as the reflected till you touch it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you need a helping hand, look inside you before anywhere else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is such a strange fact that memories of people are more loyal and more faithful than the people themselves! When a person dies or leaves us, his memories yet stay with us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rain is nature’s art; umbrella is man’s art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan