Emre Quotes

#1. There's a space in me. It's a dead space. I know that, because I can't feel anything. But that's what hurts, the nothingness. It's agony.

J.C. Burke

#2. Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow ...

Yunus Emre

#3. I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

Chick Corea

#4. My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

Yunus Emre

#5. Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

David Hume

#6. I am the drop that contains the ocean

Yunus Emre

#7. I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable.

Yunus Emre

#8. The earth shall be left to no one.

Yunus Emre

#9. Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

Sonya Hartnett

#10. Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

Yunus Emre

#11. Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.

Yunus Emre

#12. If I told you about a land of love ... would you swallow it as a remedy?

Yunus Emre

#13. But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of your desire, and then fulfill it, it evaporates.

Haven Kimmel

#14. Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Yunus Emre

#15. How could he say all this? It amounted to a lifetime. He could try to find the words, but they would never hold the same meaning for her that they did for him. "My house," he would say; and the image that would spring to her head would be of her own. There was no saying it.

Rachel Joyce

#16. It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

Zachary Cole Smith

#17. Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Yunus Emre

#18. This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#19. A heart makes a good home for the friend.

Yunus Emre

#20. To love the world is to be afflicted.

Yunus Emre

#21. Don't let me wander from Your love,
Don't let me leave Your door,
And if I lose myself,
Let me find myself with You.

Yunus Emre

#22. If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

Yunus Emre