Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 3

You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For whom am I waiting? I don't know, at this point in my life there doesn't seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.
Cezmi Ersöz
Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.
Orhan Pamuk
When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
Orhan Pamuk
In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.
Mehmet Murat ildan
To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow.
Irfan Orga
Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are a sensitive person, you don’t give flowers to others, because you know that the flowers – these miraculous beauties and the wondrous jewels of our cosmos – excessively deserve to live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a dream-life: A life amongst the flowers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won’t find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don’t ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don’t be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Disappointment means that things haven’t worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Crying has no potential for solving the problems!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, the foundation of a state does not increase the freedom of a people. The system of the United Nations that is based on nation-states has remained inefficient. Meanwhile, nation-states have become serious obstacles for any social development. Democratic confederalism is the contrasting paradigm of the oppressed people. Democratic confederalism is a non-state social paradigm. It is not controlled by a state. At the same time, democratic confederalism is the cultural organizational blueprint of a democratic nation. Democratic confederalism is based on grassroots participation. Its decision-making processes lie with the communities. Higher levels only serve the coordination and implementation of the will of the communities that send their delegates to the general assemblies. For limited space of time they are both mouthpiece and executive institution. However, the basic power of decision rests with the local grassroots institutions.
Abdullah Öcalan
Artists shows us what we blind to.
Baris Gencel
Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There ́s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static, rooted in a place. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a wide circle, constantly moving. Like that, my fiction as well. One part of it is rooted in Istanbul with strong Turkish roots. But the other part travels the world, connecting to different cultures.
Elif Shafak
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?
Mehmet Murat ildan
You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.
Elif Shafak
Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?
Orhan Pamuk