Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 2

Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.-Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
Trust your own reason and your own logic, not your own media!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!
Mehmet Murat ildan
at first sight everyone seems like human.
Arzum Uzun
What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn’t imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.
Orhan Pamuk
When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!
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
You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Artists show us what we blind to.”Baris Gencel
Baris Gencel
Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!
Mehmet Murat ildan
However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
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
What is a great success? You haven’t hurt anyone? That is a great success! You haven’t ignored any person? That is a great success! You haven’t lied? That is a great success! You haven’t deceived a person? That’s a great success! And now you see how very difficult to have a real success!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No child’s face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sincere wishes come true.
Mehmet Murat ildan
An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!
Mehmet Murat ildan
True thinking brings a good life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!
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
Doubts are good. It means you are alive and searching. One does not become a believer overnight. He thinks he is a believer; then something happens in his life and he becomes an unbeliever, after that, he becomes a believer again and then an unbeliever again, and so on. Until we reach a certain stage, we constantly waver. This is the only way forward. At each new step, we come closer to the Truth.
Elif Shafak
No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!
Mehmet Murat ildan
At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Read, so as to know; speak, so as to teach; write, so as to think!
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