Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 4

When you see a heron eating an innocent rabbit, what comes to your mind? Do you say ‘What a great order God has created?’ or you say ‘What a devilish horror is going on here!’ Question your beliefs! If the strong eats the weak, there is absolutely nothing divine in here, but there is only injustice and nightmare!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In spring we are on Earth; in summer we are on Earth; in autumn we are on Earth, but in winter we are in another planet; winter is another planet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Beautiful winter means beautiful spring! When you look at a great winter scenery, see the flowers, see the bees, see the butterflies, they are all there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes everything passes fast before you while you are sitting and sometimes everything sits while you are passing fast before them! In both cases you feel lonely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The feeling that something good will happen must always be kept alive!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.
Orhan Pamuk
You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.
Orhan Pamuk
He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who want to get wet need no umbrella!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.
Taner Akçam
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.
Orhan Pamuk
Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not lucky enough, you can’t reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need ‘luck’ to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don’t wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I love you" he said. I did not say anything. What could I say? If i said i love you too, i had perpetual punishment for being a liar.
Arzum Uzun
When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every human being will die. I am not God, I am not son of God, I am Christ eternal.
Mehmet Ali Ağca
When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you always look at the sky, you miss the good things on the ground; if you always look at the ground, you miss the good things in the sky!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Failing is easy, but climbing up the mountain requires strategy, commitment, endurance, and the iron will to keep trying till you reach the summit.
John Taskinsoy
Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Love and knwoledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving, knowledge too..
Baris Gencel
Love and knowledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving and same goes to knowledge too..
Baris Gencel
When you look at a natural beauty, it also looks at you! Since both the viewer and the viewed are miracles, two miracles look at each other in admiration!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sun must set so that we can long for its rise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sun always shines for those who have something good to stand upon.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Admire all the stars, but what you really must admire is your very own Sun, the cosmic candle of our beloved Earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sun is a cosmic hand which tries to reach you wherever you are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are a hope for someone, that’s very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that’s excellent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is good to say something beautiful; it is even better to say something right; but saying a right thing beautifully, that is the best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
With fear, you crawl on the ground; without fear, you fly in the skies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven as they are both present inside this very moment. Why worry so much about the aftermath, an imaginary future, when this very moment is the only time we can truly and fully experience the presence and absence of God in our lives? Motivated by neither the fear of punishment nor the desire to be rewarded in heaven, Sufis love God simply because they love him.
Elif Shafak
Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!
Mehmet Murat ildan