Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 6

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Elif Shafak
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want the waves to touch you softly, have a walk on the sea coasts; if you want the life to touch you softly, have a walk on the reason’s coasts, because reason is a shield that softens the strokes of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The worst mistakes of your past can be the best lights of your future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
Orhan Pamuk
In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz. Bu zübükler heryerde var, biz zübükler nerde varsak, onlar da orada...
Aziz Nesin
When your dream dies, create another dream; don’t waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don’t stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
Orhan Pamuk
You can never catch real happiness without making others happy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two kinds of politicians on Earth: Those who expand the freedoms and those who restrict them! The second group has no chance to triumph and they will always be remembered as spooky characters from a horror movie!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead and the living, the known and the hidden. Never in my life have I arrived at a new place without getting the blessing of its saints first. It makes no difference to me whether that place belongs to Muslims, Christians, or Jews. I believe that the saints are beyond such trivial nominal distinctions. A saint belongs to all humanity.
Elif Shafak
Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When mind is so easy, body becomes so tranquil and so fearless.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our true mentor in life is science.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A house without security cannot be a home!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing: When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don’t be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A city man taking the picture of a donkey and behaving like he has seen an alien creature must absolutely be photographed as he is certainly more interesting than the donkey itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man stroking a dog’s head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes we all want to disappear in the depths of an infinite path and the reason of this is obvious: We all come from the depths of infinity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The holy eye is the one who is able to see the extraordinary beauties of the ordinary days!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Once upon a timeI fell in loveLost myselfAnd find another one.
Arzum Uzun
...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one´s own snowflake.
Orhan Pamuk
What is it we call life anyway? The lights that flash within us from time to time. Those lit moments, these tiny dots, one by one, added on from one end to the other, intermingling with each other sometimes, one on top of the other, or slipped underneath; this combination of dots that moves forward, constantly changing places and directions, creates very beautiful music.
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