Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 35

Your dream is your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is the size of this universe? The size of this universe is whatever the size of your dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do the dreams have also their own dreams? Yes they have and those dreams also have their own dreams! So when you create a dream, you create infinite number of dreams! When you dream of a beautiful house, then that beautiful house will create new dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When your dream dies, create another dream; don’t waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don’t stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a man has lost everything he has but his dreams, it means that he has still everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can’t see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them are not only liars but also serial killers because they deliberately send people to the wars!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A soulless city creates soulless people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is a very strong love behind you that you can lean against to it, nothing can ever shake you very strongly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two kinds of diamonds in this world: The diamond itself and the eyes full of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being’s life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May love always be with you, and you always surrounded by love
Elif Shafak
If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.
Mehmet Murat ildan
For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?
Yunus Emre
If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.
Orhan Pamuk
You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.
Elif Shafak
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
Orhan Pamuk
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
Orhan Pamuk
Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.
Mehmet Murat ildan
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.
Mehmet Murat ildan
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.
Mehmet Murat ildan
It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.
Mehmet Murat ildan
All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!
Mehmet Murat ildan