Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 9

We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will find angels everywhere if you just stop looking for a supernatural being with feathered wings. When you see the sunshine through the clouds in a cold day, there the angel is! Anything good, anything useful, anything which gives you peace, they are all real angels! Look around you, you will see thousands of angels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's 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? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?
Orhan Pamuk
To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.
Orhan Pamuk
People like the leaders; they like to follow them; they let the leaders to think on behalf of them; they like shepherds; they like to behave like sheep! For god’s sake, follow your own path, be an individual, be independent! Stop being a coach in the train, a duck in the row! Get some personality! Use your own mind to determine your own path! Forget the leader, forget the shepherd, forget the guru, and forget the protagonist! Be the leader of yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their brightly shining hair (after their necks, their most attractive feature), their arms, their beautiful throats, and even, if what Ive heard is true, a portion of their gorgeous legs; as a result, the men of those cities walk about with great difficulty, embarrassed and in extreme pain, because, you see, their front sides are always erect and this fact naturally leads to the paralysis of their society. Undoubtedly, this is why each day the Frank infidel surrenders another fortress to us Ottomans.
Orhan Pamuk
A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!
Mehmet Murat ildan
More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.
Baris Gencel
Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.
Baris Gencel
Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two.
Orhan Pamuk
If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you see a big danger ahead, don’t start running immediately; because it may be the challenge that at the end you shall become stronger than ever before! Do not avoid every danger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Danger is hidden everywhere! You can’t always be physically ready for it, but you can always be ready mentally!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To isolate life from danger is a mission impossible! To take precautions against the dangers, that is the necessary and plausible mission!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too
Mehmet Murat ildan
Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don’t need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you keep fighting with yourself, you will have less energy to fight with life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Doubts are good. It means you are alive and searching. One does not become a believer overnight. He thinks he is a believer; then something happens in his life and he becomes an unbeliever, after that, he becomes a believer again and then an unbeliever again, and so on. Until we reach a certain stage, we constantly waver. This is the only way forward. At each new step, we come closer to the Truth.
Elif Shafak
You want more light in your house? Enlarge your windows! You want more truth in your life? Doubt everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Only the dull don’t doubt!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A touch may not always be a love but love is always a touch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A touch may not be always be a love but love is always a touch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
Mehmet Murat ildan
These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik
Orhan Pamuk
When climbing, you don’t have to put your foot on every step, jump over some of them! When solving your problems, you don’t have to solve each and every one, jump over some of them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind’s invention, your mind’s exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If one part of a country is watching football match while the other part of the same country is under heavy attacks by the rockets, then we can say that there is no nation in that country, but there is only crowd of people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stick to the honesty and never leave it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can’t control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best dancer is the one who isn’t even aware that she is dancing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!
Mehmet Murat ildan