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Quotes by Turkish Authors

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

"Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it!"

"Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind!"

"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Leave city, leave reality; enter forest, enter fantasy!"

"Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!"

"Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy!"

"The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!"

"If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!"

"A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!"

"Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!"

"All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!"

"In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!"

"The politicians of your country will always try to encircle you with the high walls of lies! You must know that the truth is beyond the walls and without meeting the truth you cannot meet the freedom!"

"One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places!"

"Don't look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!"

"The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!"

"My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!"

"A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat!"

"Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!"

"You cannot forever hide your true face in the shade, it will eventually be caught by the light!"

"Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create..."

"To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!"

"Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!"

"Every road will take you somewhere! But the question is: To where? To a sunny place or to a place full with shadows? Those who are very sure of their paths often end up in the second place! Don't be so sure with your path, question it ten times, question it hundred times!"

"People of one idea are the poorest people on earth; people of many ideas, people of many different thoughts are the richest people on earth! Only the rich in ideas, only those who have flexible minds will survive in this ever changing universe!"

"When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!"

"When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!"

"The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!"

"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"

"Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!"

"Every beautiful street is a port of happiness!"

"When they look at a beautiful view, most people see their memories, not the view!"

"You will best realise the speed of life when you stop and watch the life!"

"In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!"

"If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!"

"Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!"

"He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's!"

"Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!"

"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!"

"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"

"Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!"

"When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!"

"Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet."

"Mankind has created many religions, most of them are long gone now and finally all will long gone! This truth is an irreversible truth!"

"Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!"

"For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!"

"You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!"

"One-man regimes belong to old eras, they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!"

"When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!"
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