Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 18

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How long we live is much more important than how well we live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.
Orhan Pamuk
Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero.
Orhan Pamuk
Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Existence is more important than happiness; we can’t live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Existence has billions of doors, but death has none!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is nothing in this universe which is not in struggle to keep its existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Believers are each other's mirrors.
Elif Shafak
Some people make the mistake of confusing "submission" with "weakness", whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.I accepted the fact that there are things beyond my limits. I can only see some parts, like floating fragments from a movie, but the bigger scheme is beyond my comprehension.
Elif Shafak
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
Orhan Pamuk
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can’t see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...
Mehmet Murat ildan
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words.
Orhan Pamuk
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to be respected, do something respectful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can always be better than your master but you can never change the fact that you were his student and he was your master! The seed must always respect for his soil!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A need for many candles may arise in every nation’s history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You walk and walk and walk and then you look at back and see your youth, so far away from you, so young, so curious, so hopeful, so breezy, so brave! To feel young in old age, remember your youth very often! Remind yourself frequently what you were once!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!
Mehmet Murat ildan