Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

To enter the land of wisdom, firstly start changing the angles you look at the things!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you attain the highest wisdom, you will disappear physically because people will start seeing only your ideas and thinking about only your wisdom; you will die physically and you will turn into an empty chair full of universe simply!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continue your path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you keep wandering in the dark streets, may be it is because you find peace in the darkness rather than in the light!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Leave city, leave reality; enter forest, enter fantasy!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is your big project in the New Year? You don’t have one? No dream, no reality! Get a big dream for yourself now to get a big reality tomorrow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ 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

Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

If you keep fighting with yourself, you will have less energy to fight with life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan