Mehmet Murat ?ldan is a visionary Turkish playwright, novelist, and thinker born in 1965 in Elaz?g, Turkey. Known for his profound philosophical insights and poetic expressions, ?ldan has inspired countless readers worldwide with his sharp intellect and timeless quotes. His works often explore the beauty of nature, the complexity of human thought, and the pursuit of wisdom. Through his literary voice, he encourages courage, imagination, and positive thinking, leaving a powerful legacy for both current and future generations.
"When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!"
"Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!"
"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!"
"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"
"The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!"
"If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!"
"It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!"
"No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!"
"The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!"
"A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!"
"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
"Waiting makes wine better, but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!"
"You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!"
"Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!"
"Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!"
"For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!"
"For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!"
"To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude."
"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
"We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!"
"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
"You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!"
"Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!"
"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"
"When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!"
"For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything!"
"Something good is a frontier, something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!"
"A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity, a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world!"
"Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!"
"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
"Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!"