Murat Ildan Quotations Quotes

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!

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!

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!

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!

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!

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!

Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!

For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!

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

In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!

A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!

The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don’t be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere!

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!

Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!

When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!

A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

Just because an impressive storm doesn’t touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!

There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!

Don’t wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don’t wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!

Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!

To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

Let those who live never forget those who died!

If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!

The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!