Famous Turkish Writers Quotes

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! ~ 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

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Don't pull people into your own storm! Let them stay safe outside your storm! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a great willpower, no road has length! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory! ~ 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

The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A step taken to a new idea is a step taken to a new world! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring any kind of distractions! Abstract yourself from all the primitivenesses surrounding you! Concentrate on your work! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is democracy? If it is the rule of the majority, ignoring the rest, then it is not good, it is very bad! But if it is the rule of the whole citizens, caring the wills of both the majority and the rest, then it is good, then it is real democracy! And the purpose of every real democracy is to be a modern country, to be a modern structure! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Find a right and a beautiful idea; stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan