Turkish Literature Quotes

Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hungry people need food, definitely not an advice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.

~ Elif Shafak

Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In old age, past haunts the present; memories replace the real life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If two people said the same thing but only one of them said it beautifully, then only that one will conquer both the hearts and the minds of the people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan