Turkish Literature Quotes

Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!

Mehmet Murat ildan

For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

To reach your target quicker, don’t lose your time by looking back!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The path to tranquility gets through the storms!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!

Mehmet Murat ildan

High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.

Mehmet Murat ildan

If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!

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

No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!

Mehmet Murat ildan

This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You can never catch real happiness without making others happy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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