Turkish Love Quotes & Sayings

I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition. — Leyla Zana

I want you so much, he said with such heart-tugging sincerity that to be fair, a translation from Turkish to English would have to flip a coin between "want" and "love. — Bob Shacochis

Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

God understands everything. And even He made a mistake or two. Look at the size of avocado seeds - way too big. And pomegranates? Too many seeds. What a waist of fruit! — Robyn Carr

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love — Rumi

The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so. — Tom Cotton

If we go to Frankfurt together it won't be long, I'm sure, before I love you. I'm not like you; it takes me longer than two days to fall in love with someone. If you're patient, if you don't break my heart with your Turkish jealousies, I'll love you deeply. — Orhan Pamuk

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas. — Marcelo Gleiser

Damn straight I do," Jude said, grabbing my waist and lifting me into the cab. "Tell him my girl comes before football. Tell him my girl's breakfast comes before football. — Nicole Williams

Spying came to him as making love comes to other men. It is his belief, in fact, that his father may have had relations with the Okhrana, the czar's intelligence service, though his murder by the Turks was haphazard - simply one act in a village slaughter. But Avram knew them, whether they were Turkish Aghas or British officers, he always understood how they worked, where their vulnerabilities lay. — Alan Furst

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

Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book — Miriam Toews

The train may fall in love with a station, but it has to go and it goes! Don't be like the train; stay at the station you fell in love, go nowhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything. — Henry Miller

Like most Turkish men of my world who entered into this predicament, I never paused to wonder what might be going on in the mind of the woman with whom I was madly in love, and what her dreams might be; I only fantasized about her. — Orhan Pamuk

Would you?" Mom smiles and touches my hair, pushing it back from my forehead. I let her, but I grit my teeth. Her bare fingers brush my skin. I am thankful when none of my amulets crack. "Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. Isn't that beautiful? My grandfather told me that when I was a little girl, and I never forgot it. Unfortunately, I still like my milk. — Holly Black

One of the most notorious slogans of ultra-nationalism in Turkey has been 'Either love it or leave it!' It is meant to block all kinds of fault-finding from within. The implication is that if you criticize your country or your state, you are showing disrespect, not to mention a lack of patriotism, in which case you had better take your leave. If you do stay, however, the implication is that you love your homeland, in which case you had better not voice any critical opinions. This black-and-white mentality is an obstacle to social progress. But it is not only Turkish ultra- nationalism that is fuelled by a dualistic mentality. All kinds of extremist, exclusivist discourses are similarly reductionist and sheathed in tautology. Either/or approaches ask us to make a choice, all the while spreading the fallacy that it is not possible to have multiple belongings, multiple roots, multiple loves. — Elif Shafak

Don't live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as if it was your father's house ... Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Nazim Hikmet, 20th century Turkish poet — Nahid Rachlin

Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. — Holly Black

Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want. — Jeet Banerjee

Little minds try to solve the matters through violence and darkness; great minds try to solve the matters through love and light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static, rooted in a place. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a wide circle, constantly moving. Like that, my fiction as well. One part of it is rooted in Istanbul with strong Turkish roots. But the other part travels the world, connecting to different cultures. — Elif Shafak

I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab. — Flula Borg

My fear was not the fear of God but, as in the case of the whole Turkish secular bourgeoisie, fear of the anger of those who believe in God too zealously( ... ) I experienced the guilt complex as something personal, originated less from the fear of distancing myself from God than from distancing myself from the sense of community shared by the entire city . — Orhan Pamuk

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. — Sammy Hagar

The sky drops silver threads of sleet. — Anthony Doerr

I don't love her anymore
So
Why should I walk
Nights
By the tavern
Where I drank
Every night
Thinking of her? — Orhan Veli Kanik

Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary. — Albert Einstein

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it. — Nazr Mohammed

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered. — Julie Christie

Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must be a blast on long car rides."
"Oh, I am. You haven't experienced fun until you try to fuck in the front seat of a Civic. — Nenia Campbell

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

Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye. — Leigh Hunt

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find. — Dalai Lama