Quotes by Turkish Authors

If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)
Orhan Pamuk
If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
Orhan Pamuk
A day without laugh is a day without life.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Laugh represents a fragile glory of the mankind in this cruel and uncertain universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A city full of art is a city full of wit!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can never make a city as clean as the nature itself. To do this, you must completely demolish the city and convert it into the pure nature.
Mehmet Murat ildan
@K11, Urban farming; It’s something nice and warm for families and kids, but also references elements of the city. Urban Farming is very important for Shanghainese people because the city has lost its connection with nature. When you buy fruit or vegetables it’s just that - a product - for kids and us, we wanted to reconnect this with the amazing process of growing plants. People need this, urban farming connects people with their roots. In this way it’s also educational
Baris Gencel
Who said Hong Kong too small? In size perhaps but not in it`s soul and personality. Every corner in this city giving you full of surprises, if not every hour but at least every day….
Baris Gencel
For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities.
Mehmet Murat ildan
We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!
Mehmet Murat ildan
William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Just because you are living in a stupid country, you don’t have to be stupid! Isolate yourself from the fools! Protect your mind to be poisoned by the deceitful media, by the dishonest politicians, by the primitive culture and the illogical traditions! Rise above the lownesses of the system like a falcon rising from the marshland and start shining like a star for others to see you and to come near to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must often leave your country, not necessarily physically, but mentally often! Leave your own music; leave your own religion! Leave your own culture, your own books and ideas! Walk around in the world of others, listen to what they speak and learn what they think! In short, get out of your puddle, sail to the ocean! Move, friend, move out of your country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the agenda of empty countries, there exists only empty matters!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the middle of the storm, the ‘a’ of the atheist drops!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.
Elif Shafak
On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the distant future, I don’t want to be remembered; I want to remember!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let those who live never forget those who died!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are given a hundred city, refuse it without any hesitation; if you are given a lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest, accept it without any hesitation because all you need is just a peace of mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you fully understand something, you become that something itself! If you understand a rock, you become a rock; if you understand the universe, you become the universe; if you understand a horse, you become a horse! Understanding automatically transforms you into the thing understood!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Anyone who witnesses to the Grace of God revealed in Christ is undertaking direct assault against Satan's dominion.
Thomas Cosmades
Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He tip-toed past the double bed that had been placed in a corner - wrought-iron headboard, embroidered pillows, amulets against the evil-eye and a satiny, cobalt-blue bedspread. Blue was Iskender's favourite colour. It was the colour for boys, which meant the sky was a boy. So were the rivers and lakes. And the oceans, though he had yet to see one.
Elif Shafak
In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who knows how to fall without hurting himself will also know how to rise without any difficulty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan