Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 25

As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to the mirror, conjuring up the memory of the couple in the film. I couldn't get the image of their lips out of my mind. But by now I'd realised I'd not even be kissing myself; I'd be kissing the mirror.
Orhan Pamuk
To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.
Orhan Pamuk
The meeting of the two lonely souls is the meeting of the dark sea with the moonlight.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent´t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he´d still be the loneliest man on earth.
Orhan Pamuk
The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.
Orhan Pamuk
You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
Orhan Pamuk
Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your windows are closed, your doors are closed! Open your windows, open your doors! Let the air and sunshine enter inside, let the ideas flow into you, let the thoughts flock into your mind! Take, so that you can give!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want people to enter your world, you don’t need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People of one idea are the poorest people on earth; people of many ideas, people of many different thoughts are the richest people on earth! Only the rich in ideas, only those who have flexible minds will survive in this ever changing universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere
Orhan Pamuk
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
Harun Yahya
You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. You say you want to travel the path, but you don't want to sacrifice anything to that end. Money, fame, power, lavishness, or carnal pleasure - whatever it is that one holds most dear in life, one should dispose of that first.
Elif Shafak
Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Each time I say good-bye to a place I like, I feel like I am leaving a part of me behind. I guess whether we choose to travel as much as Marco Polo did or stay in the same spot from cradle to grave, life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away.
Elif Shafak
Man’s primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every single moment is a travel into the unknown!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you do not need a particular destination to go, you just need a travel; the place you want to go is the travel itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Something right in the morning can turn into something wrong in the afternoon! Even if you are on the right path, you must still question the rightness of your path! Conditions perpetually change! Update your path and your travel constantly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.
Erol Ozan
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain’t a man surely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A person is loved for the risk he or she takes for someone else, be it a mother, a father, a child, a lover, or a friend. It takes courage to reach out and connect with another human being. It requires risk and hard work. It takes courage and compassion for a person to truly bond with another. Sometimes even bridges aren't enough.
Buket Uzuner
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy, we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
Orhan Pamuk
We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?
Orhan Pamuk
The greatest magic of life is that all things in life can be changed!
Mehmet Murat ildan