Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise, rise altogether with others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life and death; there is no bridge between the two; they are stuck to each other! Death is only a step away from us, no more, only one step!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places, they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren’t we all a little crazy anyway?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A big city is a big ocean, the one who doesn’t know how to swim finds himself at its bottom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle’s egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next ‘Get it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing all over the place, what is the use of killing one insignificant chick? In a war you have to kill the king first; thus you can put an end to the battle more quickly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don’t you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody walks to somewhere or everybody runs to somewhere simply because those somewheres don’t walk to us or don’t run to us! No struggle happens, no nothing happens!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tonight or every night if you wish you can have a very distinguished guest from the space: Just open your curtain at night, then the Moon will visit you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman’s heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You don’t need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Philosophically speaking, shadows of people are friendlier than people themselves because they come together very easily!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you follow the devil, your journey will end up in the hell! This is what happens to those who follow the dictators!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No one can see very clearly inside the heavy fog, no one but the fog himself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is only one autumn in a year, but in people’s life, there are many autumns in one year!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For every drop of water you waste, you must know that somewhere on earth someone is desperately looking for a drop of water!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A field which feeds you, a river which gives you water are much holier than all other so-called holy places!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The moment when kite becomes free, it will fall down!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

With fear, you crawl on the ground; without fear, you fly in the skies!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are a hope for someone, that’s very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that’s excellent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan