Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 7

The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil
Mehmet Murat ildan
Page 158: 'Architecture is team work,' said Sinan. 'Apprenticeship is not.''Why don't you want us to look at each other's drawings? ' Jahan once asked.'Because you'll compare. If you think you are better than the others, you'll be poisoned by hubris. If you think another's better, poisoned by envy. Either way, it is poison.
Elif Şafak
It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.
Orhan Pamuk
A soulless city creates soulless people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
Erol Ozan
Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!
Mehmet Murat ildan
After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a simple street you can find the whole world: You can find joy and sorrow; you can find good and evil, silence and noise; you can find all the comedies and all the tragedies! An ordinary simple street is the mirror of the whole world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
Erol Ozan
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.
Elif Shafak
My fear was not the fear of God but, as in the case of the whole Turkish secular bourgeoisie, fear of the anger of those who believe in God too zealously(...) I experienced the guilt complex as something personal, originated less from the fear of distancing myself from God than from distancing myself from the sense of community shared by the entire city .
Orhan Pamuk
Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The nicest thing about being lost is that you get rid of the fear of losing your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.
Orhan Pamuk
You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heavy price!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
Orhan Pamuk
A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere.
Elif Shafak
For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes the bridge that leads to heaven is the very hell itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every fashion is temporary but the concept of fashion is permanent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
Orhan Pamuk
When the winter comes, fire becomes a king!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is a magical shelter where you will feel yourself safe beneath it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.
Erol Ozan