Turkish Literature Quotes

He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you!

No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!

May be the road you travel doesn’t give you the beautiful fate you have always dreamed off! Stop and change the road, no matter how difficult it may be!

Soil is earth’s barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!

Hard roads require will of steel!

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!

The miracle of a single tree in the middle of nowhere originates from its own power, its own belief in itself!

People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!

If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!

When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!

The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!

Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!

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

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

Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!

The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!

What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!

In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!

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!

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!

When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!

Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!

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!

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!

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!

A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!

It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!

Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!

The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!

When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

Do the dreams have also their own dreams? Yes they have and those dreams also have their own dreams! So when you create a dream, you create infinite number of dreams! When you dream of a beautiful house, then that beautiful house will create new dreams!

History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!

When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!

If you are happy with your present time, you will look at your past with happy eyes even if you have had a sad past!

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

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

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

There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!

If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

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

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!

Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!

Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life!

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!

Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!

When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!

There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!

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!

All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!

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!

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

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