Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 23

When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.
Mehmet Murat ildan
I love you in my very own way.Like a stone loves the mosses around itLike a sea loves the pebbles in itLike a coincidence...Taking you as the way you are,With all the bruises, scars and broken parts all around you and your heart.I love you in my very own wayBy throwing the stone, the mosses, the sea and the pebbles to your headLike i want to kill you.Just because of envying the love That my heart spend on you.
Arzum Uzun
And life goes on like this,an uncomplete poem.
Arzum Uzun
No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Inaction is the worst action of human beings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In action is the worst action of human beings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
Erol Ozan
Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.
Erol Ozan
The impression she left on others and her self-perception had been sewn into a whole so consummate that she could no longer tell how much of each day was defined by what was wished upon her and how much of it was what she really wanted.--Three Daughters of Eve.
Elif Shafak
If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The tram’s fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.
Orhan Pamuk
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.
Mehmet Murat ildan
When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A big hole in a poor child’s shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.
Orhan Pamuk
Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
Orhan Pamuk
Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must often visit the darkness to get the people lost in the darkness out of there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.
Elif Shafak
Darkness well ahead is better than darkness close by, because you can find a way to avoid the former! Search the horizons to see the storms ahead.
Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter what happens in the outside world, as long as you have faith in yourself, no darkness can touch you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!
Mehmet Murat ildan