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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!"
"If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!"
"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!"
"In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!"
"Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!"
"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."
"A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community."
"Sometimes it is not right to wait for the right train. Take any train instead of rotting at the station! In other words, be realistic!"
"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."
"Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!"
"If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don't do anything very strange!"
"Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way, it is just a darkness and you can still walk in the darkness till you reach the light!"
"If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!"
"A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!"
"Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!"
"Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!"
"By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!"
"Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!"
"The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!"
"If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!"
"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!"
"Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!"
"Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!"
"The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!"
"The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!"
"There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!"
"Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!"
"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"
"Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!"
"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
"The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!"
"When a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it wasthis very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art."
"Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!"
"A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold, the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver."
"Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!"
"Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!"
"Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?"
"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!"
"An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!"
"Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man's life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!"
"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!"
"Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!"
"Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!"
"A good quote is a beautiful bird! Wherever you meet with it, you will start flying with it!"
"Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!"
"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"
"The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!"
"No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn't born yet!"
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