Turkish Writers Quotes

What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

~ 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

If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Happiness has only one colour: The Bright! The bright of red, the bright of green, the bright of any colour! Happiness is bright! It shines, it sparkles, it glints!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ 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