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.
"To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!"
"We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!"
"Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!"
"Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all with accepting the reality."
"People of deserts cannot know the importance of forests; to know this, one must first have sweet memories spent in the forests!"
"Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!"
"Don't ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does!"
"With fear, you crawl on the ground; without fear, you fly in the skies!"
"There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don't forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!"
"Did you have a sad day? Don't worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don't worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!"
"Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!"
"We often think that earth is the ground where our houses are built; but scientifically saying, space is the ground and earth is the house built on that ground!"
"Whenever we hear laughter, we sense the magic and the beauty of being existed!"
"Important decisions that will affect a nation's fate or humanity's fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history, they require a sound reason and a powerful logic and masses often do not have such characteristics!"
"Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!"
"A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!"
"If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!"
"There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!"
"With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!"
"There are many you's within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you's!"
"Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!"
"Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies, the important and the hard thing is to make friends easily and keep them as friends always!"
"There is no such a thing as missing the train of your life! Life is very rich and very generous, it always offers you new opportunities! Already-missed will soon be substituted by the not-missed-yet!"
"A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!"
"Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!"
"Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!"
"If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!"
"Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!"
"When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!"
"Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!"
"Crowds don't think; they act; they don't produce ideas, they produce actions!"
"Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!"
"A touch may not always be a love but love is always a touch!"
"If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!"
"Let us drink wine to remember what kind of mystical beauties life offers us and to comprehend what sort of magic potions existence has!"
"When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!"
"A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!"
"If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!"