Turkish Literature Quotes

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

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

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

You must never stay at the station where you feel unhappy! Unhappiness combined with inaction always creates deeper unhappiness! The solution is very simple: Leave the station; trust the motion because only motion will take you to the new stations! ~ 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

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! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person! ~ 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

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

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

Stick to the honesty and never leave it! ~ 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

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

If you can't control it, you will be the toy of your own mind! ~ 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

Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat! ~ 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

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

No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die! ~ 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

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

When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Simple things have greater power than the complicated things! ~ 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

If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind! ~ 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

When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

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

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

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

Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house! ~ 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

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

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

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living! ~ 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

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality! ~ 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

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

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best dancer is the one who isn't even aware that she is dancing! ~ 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

Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night! ~ 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

Autumn leaf waits for autumn wind to reach the unreachable places; wise mind waits for silence for the same reason! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort! ~ 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

Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others! ~ 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

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

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books. ~ Idries Shah

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ~ H.L. Mencken

That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community
Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO ~ Chuck Palahniuk

That night, as the stars sparkled in the sky, Polly dreamed... ~ Brian Maunder

If he had stayed in Slovenia, and Slovenia had stayed Communist, Zizek would not have been the nuisance he has since become. Indeed, if there were no greater reason to regret the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the release of Zizek on to the world of Western scholarship would perhaps already be a sufficient one. ~ Roger Scruton

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad. ~ Joshua Cohen

The New Testament, that is, was made by the Church; the Church was not made by the New Testament. That is why, speaking generally, Catholics differ from Protestants in the importance given to the authority of the Bible on the one hand, and to the authority of the Church on the other. Therefore, Catholics more than Protestants would tend to say that the community has authority over its normative literature. ~ James Carroll

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves. ~ Jack Nicholson

Enjoyment of literature is achieved only by reading without expectation but with anticipation. ~ David McDonald

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen. ~ Mason Cooley

Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape. ~ Toni Morrison

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. ~ Aesop

A paradox is simply an error out of control; i.e. one that has trapped so many unwary minds that it has gone public, become institutionalized in our literature, and taught as truth. ~ E.T. Jaynes

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

Practically all human literature deals with the present and the past; when literature tries to describe the future, it at once ceases to be human and ceases to be literature; and all the pictures which the Bolsheviks have so far given us of a future world constructed on the design of Lenin are so depressing that nobody would like to read about such a world, much less to live in it. ~ Francis Mccullagh

An inseparable complement to the exoticism in his stories is the erudition, the bits of specialized knowledge, usually literary, but also philological, historical, philosophical, or theological. This knowledge, which borders on but never oversteps the bounds of pedantry, is quite freely flaunted. But the point is not to show off Borges's wide acquaintance with different cultures. Rather, it is a key element in his creative strategy, the aim of which was to imbue his stories with a certain colorfulness, to endow them with an atmosphere all their own. In other words Borges's learning by his use of exotic settings and characters fulfills an exclusively literary function, which, in twisting the erudition around and making it sometimes decorative, sometimes symbolic, subordinates it to the task at hand. In this way Borges's theology, philosophy, linguistics and so forth, lose their original character, take on the quality of fiction, and, becoming part and parcel of a literary fantasy, are turned into literature. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa

In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man.....poetry and fiction are based upon woman's love, and the movements of history are mainly due to the sentiments or ambitions she has inspired......there is no aspiration which any man here to-night entertains, no achievement he seeks to accomplish, no great and honorable ambition he desires to gratify, which is not directly related to either or both a mother or a wife. From the hearth-stone around which linger the recollections of our mother, from the fireside where our wife awaits us, come all the purity, all the hope, and all the courage with which we fight the battle of life. The man who is not thus inspired, who labors not so much to secure the applause of the world as the solid and more precious approval of his home, accomplishes little of good for others or of honor for himself. I close with the hope that each of us may always have near us:

'A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command,
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light. ~ Chauncey Mitchell DePew

Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion ~ Olga Goa

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. ~ Agnes Repplier

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it. ~ Ray Bradbury

You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature. ~ Doris Lessing

Literature is cake; conversation is bread. ~ Marty Rubin

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end. ~ James Altucher

We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so, rather than fear the surrounding culture, and the surrounding cities which predictably results in a bunker mentality the emerging congregation embraces the culture and expects to find God in it the emerging congregation embraces the culture recognizing that its not all pretty but it embraces the culture and even then expects to find god in it because there is nowhere god isn't. there are many places where the church isn't but I don't think that means there are places where god isn't. ~ John Middendorf

I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers. ~ Maureen Corrigan

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people! ~ Diane Sawyer

The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. Yet this destination cannot any longer be personal: the reader is without history, biography, psychology; he is simply that someone who holds together in a single field all the traces by which the written text is constituted…Classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer is the only person in literature…we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. [Final passage in "The Death of the Author," in Image-Music-Text, by Roland Barthes, Trans. Stephen Heath (1977)] ~ Roland Barthes