top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Turkish Authors
"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
"A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere!"
"When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!"
"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"
"Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness."
"If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!"
"Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!"
"She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life."
"Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!"
"Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!"
"What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!"
"Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!"
"Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!"
"Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile."
"Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves."
"Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living."
"My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions."
"The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt."
"The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any."
"However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!"
"The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!"
"Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature!"
"If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!"
"Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!"
"The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!"
"Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!"
"Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don't be sure of your path! Don't ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!"
"Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible."
"Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!"
"If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put the food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!"
"If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!"
"Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul."
"What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!"
"I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise."
"It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!"
"Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!"
"The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!"
"Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!"
"No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!"
"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"
"There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!"
"Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!"
"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"
"He quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working."
"They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by chance a glimpse of an inner essence, only to forget what it was. It was this lost memory that pained us, reduced us to ruins, though still we struggled to be ourselves."
"After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?"
bottom of page