Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 21

Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Until we will be able to shape the universe the way we wanted, mankind will not be taken seriously by the universe and he shall remain as insignificant ants of the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.
Elif Shafak
Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.
Arzum Uzun
A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The politicians of your country will always try to encircle you with the high walls of lies! You must know that the truth is beyond the walls and without meeting the truth you cannot meet the freedom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.
Baris Gencel
The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man’s greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every beautiful street is a port of happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To the one in the skies, this city must look like a scintillating pattern of speckled glows in all directions, like a firecracker going off amid thick darkness. Right now the urban pattern glowing here is in hues of orange, ginger, and ochre. It is a configuration of sparkles, each dot a light lit by someone awake at this hour. From where the Celestial Gaze is situated, from that high above, all these sporadically lit bulbs must seem in perfect harmony, constantly flickering, as if coding a cryptic message to God.
Elif Shafak
Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In reality the concept of ‘other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
Orhan Pamuk
Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.
Orhan Pamuk
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive!
Mehmet Murat ildan
And then you leave the memories behind.When you look at the pictures It seems like it was always fun. But you know thatin that photos everyone was actually broken deep down inside. Wounded. Bleeding. Crying and yelling at the same time.They were some kinda wounded birds... Eagles, wrens... When you remind that, you became some kinda phoenix. And life goes on like this.like an uncomplete poem.
Arzum Uzun
Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When they look at a beautiful view, most people see their memories, not the view!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Kids don’t have much accumulated and deep memories and that’s why they happily live in the present time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!
Mehmet Murat ildan