Turkish Literature Quotes - Page 4

If you can’t control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!

There are millions reasons to live and not even a single reason to die! You must protect your life - the miracle given to you by the evolution - under all conditions!

If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!

When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!

Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!

If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!

You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!

You will desperately realise the necessity of casting anchor to somewhere or being chained to someone or something when you are drifting in the emptiness of life!

Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!

For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path!

If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!

Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!

There is no sunset in a fascist country, because there is not a Sun in a fascist country!

Flexibility is an art of creating way outs within the cul-de-sacs!

The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!

The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!

Kids don’t have much accumulated and deep memories and that’s why they happily live in the present time!

To reach your target quicker, don’t lose your time by looking back!

Watch yourself from different angles so that you can understand better who you really are!

World is full of lost lives, full of unfortunate souls ruined in the name of unreasonable religious rules!

In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!

What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!

The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!

If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!

Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!

No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!

Powerful words always travel the whole world!

Visit your life, because you are spending too much time in others life! Visit yourself!

The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!

However much you love them, you must let everything and everybody that desperately long for their freedom to be free!

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!

Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!

There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!

If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!

When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

If there is a very strong love behind you that you can lean against to it, nothing can ever shake you very strongly!

The politicians of your country will always try to encircle you with the high walls of lies! You must know that the truth is beyond the walls and without meeting the truth you cannot meet the freedom!

It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream!

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!

The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!

As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!

In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!

A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!

In action is the worst action of human beings!

When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!

For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!

They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!

Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!

The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!

If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!

As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!

In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!

To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!

Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!

What are we? We are a thinking universe!