Contemporary Turkish Literature Quotes

Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Through helping one another, you can often eliminate the prefix 'im' from the word impossible! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Dear pious fellow! Our greatest hope for you is that one day you will understand that you have no enemy other than death, no port other than existence, no protector other than your own mind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign; some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Simple things have greater power than the complicated things! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stick to the honesty and never leave it! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

May be you have already reached your target, but if you don't know this, you will move away from your target! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The untrue things don't deserve to be respected! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics. ~ Orhan Pamuk

[Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed. ~ Armineonila M.

As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated. ~ Elif Shafak

Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan