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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!"
"You can save hundred words with just one look!"
"Love is a magical shelter where you will feel yourself safe beneath it!"
"To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!"
"Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!"
"What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!"
"Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him feel that he is remembered!"
"There are two kinds of politicians on Earth: Those who expand the freedoms and those who restrict them! The second group has no chance to triumph and they will always be remembered as spooky characters from a horror movie!"
"Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!"
"In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!"
"If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!"
"It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!"
"You don't have to love the storm but you have to know its language in case you meet it!"
"Life is a miracle and your most important goal in life is to protect this miracle. You have one more goal which is as important as this one and that is to protect the other miracles, the lives of others!"
"You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!"
"By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!"
"Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!"
"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!"
"Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!"
"Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!"
"He who knows Mars, Venus, Mercury or Jupiter very well will also know very well how very precious our earth is!"
"Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear, it will replace with the truth!"
"Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!"
"A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!"
"If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!"
"Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being's adventures in this universe!"
"Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!"
"I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!"
"When you are surrounded by the people who do not see the world as you see it, you will be the loneliest of the lonely!"
"No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!"
"If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!"
"When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!"
"Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!"
"We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!"
"If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!"
"The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!"
"Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!"
"Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!"
"If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!"
"One face of the cloud sees the sun, other face of the cloud sees the darkness! To survive in this universe, you must do the same! See the sun, see the darkness! Enjoy the life, but prepare for the worst as well!"
"Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!"
"Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!"
"If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don't you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates."
"Sun always shines for those who have something good to stand upon."
"Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!"
"The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good."
"In life moments arrive where the mouth becomes tongueless and the eyes become tongue!"
"In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!"
"World is brighter with the happiness of children."
"When you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others."
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