Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Storm is not your enemy; it does not even know whether you are there! Your enemy is your unpreparedness for it!

We can't imagine deserts without camel caravans and we can't imagine wisdom without the teachings of solitude and silence!

Soil is earth's barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!

On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow!

Any place you don't want to stay becomes your prison! That's why there are many prisoners all around the world who look like free men!

The misty forest shines more than the sunny city!

Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!

A house in the middle of nowhere always reminds us our Earth's position in the universe!

A conservative town is boring and tasteless like a canned food!

For those who can see well in the darkness, there is no darkness and for those who cannot see well even in the light, there is no light! Neither darkness nor light but only your talents matter most!

To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!

An autumn forest is such a place that once entered you never look for the exit!

If you know how to make people happy with a single look, then you are a rose! If you know how to hurt people with a single touch, then you're a thorn!

Universe likes seriousness in serious matters; if you are not serious in serious matters, universe will remind you in a very strong way why you have to be serious in serious matters!

Travelling has a special scent: The scent of excitement! To smell this scent, visit the airports or the train stations or the harbours!

A cat who turns her nose up at bread does not deserve meat.

Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!

When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!

Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this!

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!

If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!

London is not a city, London is a person. Tower Bridge talks to you; National Gallery reads a poem for you; Hyde Park dances with you; Palace of Westminster plays the piano; Big Ben and St Paul's Cathedral sing an opera! London is not a city; it is a talented artist who is ready to contact with you directly!

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

When the solitude invites you, accept it, because it will make you hear the inner voices that you can never hear in the crowds!

Time will always tell us which path is right and which path is wrong; but on earth there are some special people who can truthfully tell us which path is right long before the time itself!

Every place you go is a place you have never been to because every place changes and becomes somewhere else!

If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths?

Where there are no people, the nature shines in perfection. Remote nature is the real nature!

We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!

We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!

Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

Storms give you a chance to surpass yourself!

If you love the life very much, you will see that everything will be shining, everything will be sparkling!

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!

Not every man has shoes, so reduce the number of shoes at your home till every man has at least one!

From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it!

Just when you needed the sun most, an uninvited cloud may come and cover your sun! Welcome to life, my friend!

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!

Two things can take you to the Moon: A space shuttle or a sweet love!

If you are a policeman and if an order is given to you to attack brutally the peaceful protesters, only one option will keep you in the category of human: To refuse the order and to resign! Always listen to the voice of your conscience! Refuse the evil orders of the evil men! This will bring you good honour.

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

If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!

A street full of trees must always be preferred to a street made of gold!

Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!

To see the end, go to the end; to see beyond the end, don't go further, because beyond the end, there will remain no observer!

There is a silence in the sunset: Every creature thinks about the day that vanished into the past! There are voices of rush in the sunrise: Every creature speaks to himself what life will give to him today and what he will add to the life!

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity! MMI

If you are alive and healthy, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!

A house turn into a home only when you put your soul in it!

We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!

Watch carefully the journeys of others because the beginning of your own journey is hidden in the journeys of others!

For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!

A lonely man with the truths is more crowded than the crowds without the truths!

A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!

Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!

If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up the things that belong to our time!

We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it!

Old empty chairs are not empty in reality; memories always sit there!

If a moneyed man had a "corny mind", a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!

When you look at a beautiful view from a window, the beautiful view also looks at you from the same window! But the window looks at both you and the view! Wise man is the window itself; he looks at everywhere!

Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film!

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!

When man become fully compassionate, saddles of the horses will be fully empty!

It is difficult to know a person when he is happy because the real face of a person often appears when he is unhappy!

Nobody knows what will happen after five minutes later! Strangely, this ambiguity makes life very interesting!

A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!

When all is well in your end, it is not enough! All must be well in every end!

You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!

Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.

Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.

By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms.

Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!

Beauty is the advertisement of the existence. Its purpose is to make you hold the existence tightly.

Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

Great artists come and go; they are born and they die; but there is one exception who has been living for thousands of years and still continues creating new works, new beauties every year: The Autumn!

I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!

While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

Every road has an end. Choose the one that worth travelling!

Whenever we wake up from a horrible nightmare, we don't immediately scream out of happiness.It takes a while to feel so safe and so good.

Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!

Face the truth or the truth will face you!

In defeat, stay calm; in victory, stay calm! When you see the Devil, stay calm; when you see the angel, stay calm! When booed, stay calm; when applauded, stay calm! Stay calm in every situation! Just stay calm!

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!

A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!

If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king!

Crowds prevent you to see the infinite horizons; get rid of the crowds and open your horizons.

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!