top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Turkish Authors
"Let us drink wine to remember what kind of mystical beauties life offers us and to comprehend what sort of magic potions existence has!"
"Fisherman looks for the fish in the middle of a mysterious misty lake, mankind looks for the meaning of life in the middle of a mysterious cold space!"
"The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans."
"Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!"
"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm."
"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"
"La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux!"
"Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!"
"Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!"
"Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life!"
"At the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words."
"In a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.' 'Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs."
"If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!"
"It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!"
"Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life!"
"Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!"
"Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!"
"Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!"
"If you can't control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!"
"Hungry people need food, definitely not an advice!"
"Religion does not belong to God it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!"
"Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!"
"Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!"
"Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything."
"The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!"
"Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!"
"If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!"
"To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!"
"Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe, it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness!"
"Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!"
"We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!"
"You can't clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!"
"When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!"
"While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!"
"A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!"
"Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!"
"Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don't have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!"
"Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!"
"First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!"
"People like the leaders; they like to follow them; they let the leaders to think on behalf of them; they like shepherds; they like to behave like sheep! For god's sake, follow your own path, be an individual, be independent! Stop being a coach in the train, a duck in the row! Get some personality! Use your own mind to determine your own path! Forget the leader, forget the shepherd, forget the guru, and forget the protagonist! Be the leader of yourself!"
"There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and the innocent ones, who get involved because they believe in equality and justice. The arrogant ones are obsessed with power; they presume to think for everyone; only bad can come of them. But the innocents? The only harm they do is to themselves. But that's all they ever wanted in the first place. They feel so guilty about the suffering of the poor, and are so keen to share it, that they make their lives miserable on purpose."
"No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!"
"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
"Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations!"
"Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind!"
"A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!"
"Ants are successful creatures, they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual!"
"Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!"
bottom of page