top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Reflection is a good reminder of the truth! You may turn your eyes away from the truths, but the reflections will remind them to you! And anything which describes a truth well is a reflection of that truth! Turn your eyes away from the Moon, then the lake will remind the Moon to you, the shadows of the wolves howling against the Moon will remind the truth to you, even in the eyes of a frog, you shall see the Moon! Thus, if you turn your face away from the truth, it will never work! Because the reminders of truth are everywhere and they are as strong as the truth itself!"
"Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!"
"It is such a strange fact that memories of people are more loyal and more faithful than the people themselves! When a person dies or leaves us, his memories yet stay with us!"
"A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man, a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!"
"The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!"
"Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!"
"Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!"
"What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!"
"If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too!"
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
"How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle's egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?"
"If you want the waves to touch you softly, have a walk on the sea coasts; if you want the life to touch you softly, have a walk on the reason's coasts, because reason is a shield that softens the strokes of life!"
"A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!"
"Acquaintances are always abundant, friends are always scarce!"
"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!"
"When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!"
"People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!"
"A man stroking a dog's head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!"
"In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!"
"If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!"
"Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!"
"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"
"Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!"
"You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet!"
"The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is AtatA1?4rk, an immortal revolutionist!"
"In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem!"
"In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy!"
"If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!"
"Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!"
"When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence!"
"People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!"
"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"
"In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without others, what to do with yourself? Without yourself, what to do with others?"
"We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!"
"Don't say deep things to shallow people and don't talk about shallow things with the deep people!"
"Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!"
"Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!"
"There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities."
"If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!"
"Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!"
"Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won't be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!"
"Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives."
"Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!"
"When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine."
"If you want to have a golden signature, create a good art!"
"Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!"
"To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!"
"If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!"
"When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!"
"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!"
bottom of page