Top 100 Turkish Writers Quotes
#4. Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. 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
#6. Tram's road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. 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
#8. Don't let the society or your own family or anybody to kill your dreams because your dreams are yourself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. 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
#15. A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. The edge of a precipice is a very merciless school; over there you either learn to be serious or you die foolishly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. 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
#27. The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. You can't expect justice from the storm, because it only knows to destroy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. Don't forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. 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
#32. Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. A planet with no mountains, no storms and no earthquakes will create a planet of weak people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. If somebody insists to be your enemy, you insist more to be his friend!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Don't ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. 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
#43. In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. The greatest honour in a reactionary country is to be a progressive man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Writers like Pierre Loti, by contrast, make no secret of loving Istanbul and the Turkish people for the opposite reason: for the preservation of their eastern particularity and their resistance to becoming western.
Orhan Pamuk
#46. If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. 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
#49. Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. Find a right and a beautiful idea; stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. 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
#55. A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. 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
#57. Don't pull people into your own storm! Let them stay safe outside your storm!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. 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
#59. When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. If people don't feel any emptiness when you leave a place, then it means you were an emptiness for them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. If you love the life very much, you will see that everything will be shining, everything will be sparkling!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. 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
#69. If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. An empty street sucks your fullness; a full street fills your emptiness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. 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
#80. Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. 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
#83. A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. Our dreams seldom approach us; the rule is this: We must approach them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. You can give your message to anybody, to everybody, from anywhere, from everywhere, in every way possible. The only thing you have to consider is this: Let your message be simple and understandable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. 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
#91. There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. 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
#93. There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. Don't perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and they need to be respected and be taken into consideration promptly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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