Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 7

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
To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!
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
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
If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I killed my ex lovers and buried to my memories' grave. It is JanuaryAnd I am tired of being brave.
Arzum Uzun
Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every seed wants to die in the soil! Every umbrella wants to live in a perpetually rainy world! Every mirror wants to see its own face in another mirror! Everything in this universe has dreams they wish to realise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.
Taner Akçam
Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being’s life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To the one in the skies, this city must look like a scintillating pattern of speckled glows in all directions, like a firecracker going off amid thick darkness. Right now the urban pattern glowing here is in hues of orange, ginger, and ochre. It is a configuration of sparkles, each dot a light lit by someone awake at this hour. From where the Celestial Gaze is situated, from that high above, all these sporadically lit bulbs must seem in perfect harmony, constantly flickering, as if coding a cryptic message to God.
Elif Shafak
Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A tragedy can catch us any time possible; for this very reason, we must catch the life any time possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I’m nothing great. But I’m a rose… I’m a rose whether I’m admired or not, I’m a rose whether anyone’s crazy about me or not… Like I said, nothing great. Just a rose… But, do you know what it means to be a rose, my friend? Being a rose means ‘freedom.’ It means not existing by the praises of Others or not ceasing to exist by their disapproval.
Serdar Özkan
You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won’t be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
Orhan Pamuk
Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.
Orhan Pamuk
Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Peace at home, peace in the world.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?
Orhan Pamuk
Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Artists shows us what we blind to.
Baris Gencel
Watch out when the bad treats you well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far.
Arzum Uzun
We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.
Orhan Pamuk
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
Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is the world’s problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I know every single street in this town. And I love strolling these streets in the mornings, in the evenings, and then at night when I am merry and tipsy. I love to have breakfasts with my friends along the Bosphorus on Sundays, I love to walk alone amid the crowds. I am in love with the chaotic beauty of this city, the ferries, the music, the tales, the sadness, the colors, and the black humor.....
Elif Shafak
The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!
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
By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A limited mind will have a limited world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best light which illuminates your path is your determination!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our creativity is a universe within this universe, certainly a much bigger one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!
Mehmet Murat ildan