Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Soil is earth’s barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Want to give a very strong energy to someone with a simple act? Then, smile!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In life there are times where you have to behave like twilight streets: Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t even dream, just be silent and wait for the light to shine on you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Happiness has only one colour: The Bright! The bright of red, the bright of green, the bright of any colour! Happiness is bright! It shines, it sparkles, it glints!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan