Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!

A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!

When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun!

There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Losing the conscious means to die! Death is not a door; when our conscious is gone, all is gone! Only the existence has the doors! Only the life presents you doors! You can save yourself only when you are alive, not after because there is no after! The first step for salvation is to know this simple truth!

Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

If there is moonlight outside, don't stay inside! If there is candle inside, don't stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed!

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

Sincere wishes come true.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil.

If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!

The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.

Be silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well!

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Happy moments are the times to be stupid, not be genius!

Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!

Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!

Future is an enemy territory; we cannot know what will happen to us over there!

Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world!

In old age, mirror is not a friend!

For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!

The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!

A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!

One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor!

If you are not the member of any religion, it means that you are the member of truth!

Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!

Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!

If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

Any shoe which protects your feet in a hard road is a beautiful shoe!

You can't win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!