top of page
Quotes by Turkish Authors

"You can give up your present dream provided that you have created a new dream and especially a better one!"

"If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!"

"Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!"

"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

"It will be very fair to say that the moments of sincere laughing are the very best moments of life!"

"Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!"

"A soulless city creates soulless people!"

"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

"You must often visit the darkness to get the people lost in the darkness out of there!"

"If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive!"

"Man's primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!"

"Do the difficult thing, you can then have something that you can be truly proud of!"

"You must often leave your country, not necessarily physically, but mentally often! Leave your own music; leave your own religion! Leave your own culture, your own books and ideas! Walk around in the world of others, listen to what they speak and learn what they think! In short, get out of your puddle, sail to the ocean! Move, friend, move out of your country!"

"When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!"

"Powerful words always travel the whole world!"

"Beautiful roads do not always lead to beautiful places! Heaven may be hidden at the end of an ugly road! Do not be deceived by the beginning, try to see the end!"

"If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!"

"A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!"

"Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!"

"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!"

"Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate!"

"You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man's mind is the mind looking at everywhere!"

"We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!"

"To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!"

"To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!"

"No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!"

"No one can see very clearly inside the heavy fog, no one but the fog himself!"

"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"

"If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!"

"The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!"

"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

"Full mind is the mind of stupid man, empty mind is the mind of wise man!"

"There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!"

"Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don't get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!"

"The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!"

"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"

"In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!"

"An endless path is frightening but the path that ends is even more frightening!"

"Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!"

"We are lucky when we are helped while we lose our balance, but we are certainly much luckier when we are helped only by ourselves while we lose our balance because the less external-help we get the more inner-strength we gain!"

"If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!"

"A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!"

"All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!"

"If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!"

"Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!"

"For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!"

"Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!"

"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"

"When you fully understand something, you become that something itself! If you understand a rock, you become a rock; if you understand the universe, you become the universe; if you understand a horse, you become a horse! Understanding automatically transforms you into the thing understood!"

"To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!"
bottom of page