Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 17

To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the dogs bark, the wolves howl, the lightnings flash and the crows caw, you continue doing your job!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Want to give a very strong energy to someone with a simple act? Then, smile!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It will be very fair to say that the moments of sincere laughing are the very best moments of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Smile is a good reply to the dark world.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time.
Elif Shafak
Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You mortal! You time-poor! Don’t waste your scarce time to be patient!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.
Orhan Pamuk
You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only ‘now’ in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process
Elif Shafak
There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without others, what to do with yourself? Without yourself, what to do with others?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.
Mehmet Murat ildan
To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth’s position in the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet.
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who knows Mars, Venus, Mercury or Jupiter very well will also know very well how very precious our earth is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What do we see when we look at our Earth from the space? We see a giant present given to us by the evolutionary processes! To love and to protect this cosmic present is the most supreme duty of every living person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Earth: the things that are solid, absorbed and still.Water: the things that are fluid, changing and unpredictable.Wind: the things that shift, evolve and challenge.Fire: the things that damage, devastate and distroy.The void: the things that are present through their absence
Elif Shafak
Soil is earth’s barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!
Mehmet Murat ildan