Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 22

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My prolonged study of these photographs led me to appreciate the importance of perserving certain moments for prosperity , and as time moved forwards I also came to see what a powerful influence these framed scenes exerted over us as we went about our daily lives.To watch my uncle pose my brother a maths problem , and at the same time to see him in a picture taken thirty-two years earlier ; to watch my father scanning the newspaper and trying , with a half-smile , to catch the tail of a joke rippling across the crowded room,and at that very same moment to see a picture of him to me that my grandmother had framed and frozen these memories so that we could weave them into the present.When,in the tones ordinarily preserved for discussing the founding of a nation , my grandmother spoke of my grandfather who had died so young,and pointed at the frames on the tables and the walls , it seemed that she , likes me , was pulled in two directions , wanting to get on with life but also longing to capture the moment of perfection , savouring the ordinary life but still honouring the ideal.But even as I pondered these dilemmas-if you plucked a special moment from life and framed it , were you defying death , decay and the passage of time. or were you submitting to them ?-I grew very bored with them.pg.13
Orhan Pamuk
In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.
Mehmet Murat ildan
It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.
Elif Shafak
Cold is hot, if you love it; hot is cold, if you hate it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Gandiji says where there is love there is life. We can also say where there is hate there is hell!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated!
Mehmet Murat ildan
True thinking brings a good life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a big difference between a tree and a wood! There is a big difference between a thinking society and an unthinking society!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you start thinking, you will lose your contact with the crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Open the door of nature; enter inside; forget yourself; think nothing; be the nature itself and now you are a heron, a river, a rosehip, you are the shadow of a fox, sweet fruit of a tree, you are the silence of a lake! When you forget yourself, when you stop thinking, you become everything, you become the universe itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Think something better so that something better can happen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The easiest way to be immortal is to stop thinking and the easiest way to stop thinking is to work hard physically! Remember, when you don’t think, you are immortal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Roof of your house is not your real roof; the walls of your house are not your real walls, your fists are not your real fists! Your real roof, your real wall, your real fist, your real shield is your right thinking! It is your right thinking that protects you from every danger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you comfortable? That’s good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What are we? We are a thinking universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.
Orhan Pamuk
One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people! ~
Mehmet Murat ildan
The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is often said that it’s a man’s world! We must change this fact and create this: It’s a human’s world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man has not forgotten to be man because man has not yet learned to be man! You can’t forget the thing you haven’t learned yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.
Orhan Pamuk
Man who is at the edge of a precipice has always a better chance to understand the universe than a man who is far away from that precipice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn no to destroy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.
Mehmet Murat ildan
How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.
Elif Shafak
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a watermill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.
Orhan Pamuk
Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don’t get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many madnesses in every culture! All cultures need reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your culture is your limit; if you can’t go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
Orhan Pamuk
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even the giant lead balls are not as heavy as the two sad eyes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world!
Mehmet Murat ildan