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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!"
"Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!"
"The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!"
"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"
"The waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love."
"It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?"
"Watch out when the bad treats you well!"
"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."
"What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either."
"Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?"
"If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!"
"Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!"
"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"
"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!"
"Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!"
"There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!"
"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
"Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!"
"Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two."
"If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!"
"In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty."
"Moments fly and if you don't fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!"
"The gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region."
"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!"
"Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness."
"The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience."
"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!"
"Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!"
"By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!"
"I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of life that while I was here, inside my body was a soul, a meaning, that all things were made of desire, touch, and love, that what I was suffering was composed of the same elements."
"You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!"
"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!"
"A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he d still be the loneliest man on earth."
"If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope."
"Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!"
"If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don't forget, violence makes you a low man!"
"The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!"
"There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don't forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!"
"I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on...." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal."
"To give light to others, you must first take light from others!"
"What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!"
"If you are given a hundred city, refuse it without any hesitation; if you are given a lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest, accept it without any hesitation because all you need is just a peace of mind!"
"The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion."
"If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!"
"I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality."
"I don't want to be a tree, I want to be its meaning."
"Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!"
"To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!"
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