MMI QUOTATIONS
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN QUOTES
Contemporary Turkish Novelist & Playwright, Thinker Mehmet Murat ildan (MMI), Member of the International PEN Writers.
This account has the Collection of His Quotes, Quotations, Aphorisms, Apothegms, Words of Wisdom, Maxims, Wise Words and Sagacious Sayings.
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* It is as if sometimes a very strong wind blows from the future to the present time and brings the events you will encounter in the future to this day! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you look for happiness in simple things, it becomes very difficult to be unhappy because access to simple things is very simple and easy! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Fog can cover anything, anything except itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* A man who does not appreciate silence must be sentenced to noise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* There is no need for other types of ghosts and zombies in a world where people walk like a ghost or walk like a zombie because of life anxiety! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When you read a good book, you feel something like this in the depths of your soul: You will definitely re-read this book many times! And when you meet the person you love, you will feel the same thing again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When a vulnerable little creature needs you, no matter how weak and tired you are, you will suddenly become very powerful because compassion makes one strong! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you give your life a purpose, then you give your purpose a life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Sometimes life gives you all the opportunities to sail: There is neither wave nor fog in the sea; even night is illuminated by a full moon! At such times, trust life infinitely and start your journey immediately! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When the sun goes down, some are afraid that darkness will fall and some are happy that the stars will come out! Your reaction to what happens in the outside world is more important than what is in the outside world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Smile is an act of conquest! The person you smile at is immediately conquered, as if by an army of a thousand people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* A master without students is like a tree with rotting fruits on its branches; on the other hand, a student without a master is like a tree that dries because it is not watered! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* While horrible things are happening around you, sometimes the smartest strategy is to stand still without doing anything! All this turmoil will disappear like a shooting star without touching you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The storm hits the lonely tree more strongly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Sometimes you feel yourself very far away from the life you long for! It is precisely at that moment that you need to hold on to the life you desire more tightly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The sacred place of silent minds and deep souls is the depths of the forest! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The best but the most difficult way to save humanity is to delete footprints that go nowhere other than stupidity and primitiveness so that no one can follow such paths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* A danger can find you not almost everywhere, but unarguably everywhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The peaks of the highest mountains are very frightening, but in the spirit of a mountaineer there is something that constantly feeds his courage: An endless desire to succeed! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When you travel somewhere, the place you travel also travels to you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Life is 360 degrees, so you can go in all directions! If you don’t know this, you don’t know how many paths life offers you and thus how rich life is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Why can’t we create a better world? Because those who work for a worse world are more determined than those who work for a better world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* We think of fields as non-traveling beings whereas sometimes a wind blows over the field, captures the soul of the field and takes it to other places; you see, fields make invisible journeys every day! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Nations whose libraries are empty have always been at the bottom of the rankings in history! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The aura of happy days is very wide; it can even reach very distant times and make you happy again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* It has never been seen throughout history that an easy road creates a strong person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Sometimes a good book catches you, just like a flame catches dry wood! You get trapped in the flame, you can’t get out! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Often, not the storm but the fear of storm beats us! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The most important thing that a person should understand in life is this: Every day of life can be the last day of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Sometimes big waves are hidden inside small waves; the revolt of every big storm starts with a small wave! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Within you, there is you and there is universe! If you eliminate only the universe within you, you become an ordinary person; if you eliminate only you within you, you become an extraordinary person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* You found the right teacher, good! The right teacher showed you the right path, good! And now what remains is much more important than the first two things: Walking on this right path till the end with great discipline! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When you enter a room full of things, things start speaking; when you enter an empty room, your thoughts start speaking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you observe the world from the reflections on the surface of the tea while calmly drinking tea, then you have gained an appreciable awareness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Perhaps not having experienced any tragedy is also a kind of tragedy because tragedies are one of the important ways to understand life at the highest level! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Even if there is a path to heaven, never mind, walk on a forest path instead! Tend not to fairy tales that look like real, but to realities that look like fairy tales! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Zoo is a real hell created by the devilish human mind and ignorantly supported by the zoo visitors! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Looking at the sea from the photos is not life; going to the seaside and watching the sea or sailing by boat is half-life; full life is to be inside the sea and integrate with it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you are on a road that doesn’t shorten when you walk or run, you’re either on an endless road or on a treadmill! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* To be silent for a waterfall means to die! And for people who shout out the truth in all circumstances, it is the same thing to be silent! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The magnificent beauty of an unreal discourse does not add any reality to that discourse! A false discourse is a false discourse no matter how masterfully and how powerfully it has been said! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* It is an utter ignorance to judge a nation with only its negative aspects, ignoring the great contributions of that nation throughout history, especially contributions to science! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* A humble nobody is more valuable than an arrogant celebrity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The best action to understand life is to remain inactive and quietly observe the life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Life respects those who sail from the harbour, not those who sit in the harbour! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If people become happy not when a new church, a new mosque or a new synagogue is opened in the country, but when a new knowledge centre is opened, then it means they have reached a certain mental maturity! What humanity needs is not new places of worship, but new knowledge that can take humanity to new levels, to new places! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The only way for you to improve others is to improve yourself first; and the only way for others to improve you is to improve themselves first! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Escape to nature is not only a simple escape from stupidities in the city, but also a great refreshment to better fight fools and stupidities when you return to the city! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you want to kill a person without killing him, delete the beautiful memories in his memory! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The fact that there are too many churches or too many mosques in a country does not mean that there are too many Christians or too many Muslims in that country, but too many cunning politicians in that country! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you miss the train, those on the train will also miss something because every person has the potential to change the fate of every person they come across! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* People have an unethical job that they never get tired of doing for a lifetime: Constantly making their own advertisement! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* By pouring water into a waterless well, you cannot revive it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The coronavirus caused countless damages to the world, but it also created some benefits: The world is now a more mysterious, more enigmatic place with all those masked people! As if the faces disappeared, only eyes remained! As if the tongues have disappeared, only the eyes speak telepathically! We, the people of the Earth, became an Alien on Earth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When you climb up to the highest point of a mountain, the mountain will climb down to your lowest point! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When the river meets the ocean, the memories of the river meet the memories of the ocean. These two different worlds have many stories to tell each other! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* People wake up in the morning; there are many masks in their rooms, and today they decide which mask to wear! Man has only one face, but a thousand masks! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* No matter how slow you walk, if you nonetheless reach the end of the road very quickly, then you are one of the transitory shadows walking on the path of life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If there is only one daisy among a thousand roses, all the interest flows there! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The question is not whether you can make a difference in the world but what useful difference you can make! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The student asked: Master, if I get the wisdom of all the trees in the forest one by one, will I be the best wise man in the forest? The master replied: No, you won’t be, because the wise man does not try to be anything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* It is always wise to inject a piece of reality into the madness of our dreams! For example, we should add the harsh winds of winter to our dream of a magnificent wooden house on the top of a mountain! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Think of the strangest thing you have ever done in your life! If you compare it with thousands of very strange things you can do, it will definitely look very ordinary! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When we talk about a mysterious temple covered with fog in the forest, we should know that the mysterious thing is actually our mind, not the temple! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Man is a very strange creature! He wants to be on a floating ship in the sea while sitting on the shore; and while sitting on the ship, he wants to be sitting on a fixed bench on the shore! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Some words were considered absurd in the era they were said because those words were said for the people in the future eras! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Your stance against the world is more important than the stance of the world against you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you have found a path worth to walk, never complain about walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* There is no person in the world who doesn’t leave a trace while walking! The whole matter is to leave a muddy ugly trace like a frog or a beamy beautiful trace like a comet? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you have a great ability that can be very beneficial to humanity, it is a great treason to humanity to not use it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Physically a dwarf, mentally a giant! Here is the human being in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you are on the road to hell, you can continue your journey for a while for the sake of obtaining some interesting experience, but don’t forget to make a U-turn before the end of the road! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The storm does evil, but it also has a morality: To treat everything equally while ruining everything! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you wear the same dress as reality, you will not add colour to reality! If you wear a black dress in the darkness, the darkness will not get richer! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The Earth offers us fruits, water, milk, honey, but we try to kill Earth by biting it like a venomous snake! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Look at the waves on the shore! They are passionate until they reach the shore, and then, passion ends! When you reach the target, that strong fire which took you to the target extinguishes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Any person who contributes to the arms industry is an evil person! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The best way to fully acquire the wisdom of the ruins is to do exactly the same journey they did! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The Moon is a wise man, not an intellectual, because the Moon does not bore us like a chattering intellectual, it quietly observes the Earth, listens and thinks! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* There is no one as hypocritical as a man who massacred a tree in one place and cooled in the shadow of a tree in another place! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When going down the stairs, if there is a strong wind blowing from below, it might be useful to think this: Maybe the universe wants you to go up! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Every ignorant person has a superior ability to ruin things, and if a clever man does not know this and does not take the necessary precautions, he is too ignorant! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* You can find everything you see in this world extraordinary! Or you don’t find anything you see in this world extraordinary! In the first case, everything is extraordinary, in the second case, nothing is extraordinary! The world is how you see the world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Someone who swims in the sea after the sunset cannot decide where to look: To look at the moon, the waves, the stars, or the clouds? The truth is when everywhere looks perfect it doesn’t matter where you look! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Human beings carry a strong mind within a weak body! If it were the other way around, it would have lost the chance of being in the universe for a very long time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* We can never accomplish great things in the universe by focusing on our infinite smallness within the universe! What we have to do is feel confident in ourselves by knowing that we have an infinite mind that is greater than the infinite size of the universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* May our endless applause be for the person who finds an endless path in a universe where all paths end! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* For locked doors, don’t go straight to the window, because the person who locks the door has also locked the window! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* When you meet someone of the same religion and you immediately feel close to him, then you haven’t learned to be human yet! Because being human means ignoring the religion, race and colour of the person you meet, and it means seeing only the human in him! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Genius deserves respect only if it is used in a way that is beneficial to humanity! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The biggest disaster for a country is that the government, nation, and opposition trio are all rotten, because if only one of them were not rotten, the country would find a way out of the dark! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you think life is treating you badly, you are doing unfairness to life! You hit your foot against the rock and then you get angry with the rock! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* In order to continue to exist in this universe, we have no choice but to first understand the universe in all its details! If we miss an important detail, we will be terminated in this universe! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Selling a book you love is like selling your soul! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* You can give up the walls of your house, but never give up the windows! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Seeing is enough to look, but looking is not enough to see! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* What is the mission of the wave in the ocean? It is to angrily explain that the ocean is not a lake! ~ Mehmet Murat ildans
* If you chain a free soul somewhere, you’ll see those chains begin to melt quickly! ~ Mehmet Murat ildans
* When the dimensions of your courage are greater than that of the danger, the danger which tries to scare you starts to be afraid of you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Yes, life is a place to write a story, and writing an ordinary story is easy, but writing a beautiful and unusual story that everyone admires is difficult! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The best way to change the destiny of the world is to carry children into the world of wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The student spoke: Master, I will forever be your follower, I will follow you like a shadow! The master spoke: I have one shadow, I don’t need the second one! When you come out of this temple, walk your way, with no one in front of you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you go to an abandoned railway and start waiting for a train with great faith, you will surely find optimistic idiots who will believe in you and start waiting for the train with you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The true value of a country is determined not by what it builds with rich underground resources such as oil and natural gas, but by what it builds with hard work and intelligence without having such underground resources! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The part of a tree that you really should respect is not the visible part, but the invisible part, the roots of the tree! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you are not afraid of a big wave, the wave will not get smaller, but your ability to defeat the wave will get bigger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* A curious eye means a hundred eyes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* While watching a divine view with great admiration, all those stupid desires and endless ambitions of life seem to us nothing but nauseous things! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Universe is a place of endless problems and to survive you need to find endless solutions! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Art is the act of adding our own art to the magnificent art of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* In order to be able to say something that no one knows about, it is firstly necessary to know everything that everyone knows one by one! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Walking in shoes is physical walking, but walking barefoot is spiritual walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you sit in the darkness and write poems about the beauty of light, that doesn’t mean you understand the importance of light! The whole point is to praise the light not when you don’t have it but when you have it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* There is always a possibility that a higher civilization in the universe could visit the Earth and destroy our civilization, or on the contrary, help us make a big leap in our evolutionary development! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* You can’t go straight on a curved road! Unless you have the power to change reality, you must submit to reality! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* You may look into the horizon of time and see nothing, and it only means that you have very little eyesight! You must know that an infinite number of things always come from the horizon of time; they are just on the way! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Making friends is a talent reserved only for clever people; as for fools, they always make enemies! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The storm’s mission is to remove the pink glasses from our eyes and to make us see the universe in its realistic form! And what is the reality? The reality is that the universe is a heaven of danger! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* The first condition of deserving your existence is to be grateful for your existence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* For some people, empty streets are a horror, for others empty streets are a joy! It’s all about hating or enjoying solitude! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* A night spent in the desert means a night spent in the space! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Are you sure you can walk tomorrow? Are you sure that tomorrow you will run, watch the sunset, swim in the sea, and sing? No, you are not sure, you cannot be sure! So walk today, run today, watch the sunset today, swim in the sea today, and sing today! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* Create a time for yourself to get lost somewhere you don’t know! If you get lost and learn to find your way once, getting lost will never challenge you again! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* No matter how beautiful a palace is, if the public who financed the palace do not live there, then that place is nothing but a show site occupied by unethical jesters who deceived the people! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* If your mind is open, you will see even with your eyes closed; if your mind is closed, you will not see even with your eyes open! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
* We can no longer use the adjective ‘street’ for a street full of trees! We should call it a real temple, a beautiful sanctuary, a real living being! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
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