Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wear red and just be silent, don’t even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

While you are walking in a street, if you are not thinking about that street, we cannot say that you are walking in that street because you are always in the place where your mind is! Wherever you are, you can be in that place only by being at the present moment!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan