Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 13

We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Travelling is the best way to introduce ourselves to the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!
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
Not only try but try your best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Have an objective in life! Or you feel lost in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan