Turkish Literature Quotes & Sayings

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

Let the 'why not' philosophy be your life principle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our real power in life comes from our true thinking! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things! — 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

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

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

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

Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely! — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down! — 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

A peaceful nature is the best doctor for an unpeaceful mind! — 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

People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside; an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside! — 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

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything! — 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

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

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

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

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

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Turkish Delight
Turkish delight has had a bad reputation since that man C.S.Lewis - a positive genius in other ways - linked it for ever with one of the most terrifying creations in literature, the White Witch of Narnia, and that naughty, sticky, traitorous Edmund. But with the sensuous pleasure imbued in its melting, gelatinous texture, and, when made in the proper way, delicately perfumed with rose petals, flavoured with oils and dusted with sugar, it reclaims its power as a sweet as seductive as Arabian nights. The fact that it now carries with it a whiff of danger merely adds to its pleasure. It is not, truly, a sweet for children. They simply complain, and get the almonds stuck up their noses, — Jenny Colgan

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

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

Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later! — 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

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

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

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! — 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

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

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you! — 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

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

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

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can't control it, you will be the toy of your own mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

You can't make a high jump without high spirits! — 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

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

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

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

The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly! — 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

The best dancer is the one who isn't even aware that she is dancing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day! — 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

You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self! — Mehmet Murat Ildan