Turkish Literature Quotes

No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where even humans are treated brutally, animals must be in a totally desperate condition!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!

~ 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

Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!

~ 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

When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!

~ 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

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